From: Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:34:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
X-Git-Tag: v2.3.5c1~28
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9075cc4671e8e045c960e01e4b1e018a93ea2ec2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
erroring out.
---

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index b1f19fced570..2d340914e6c8 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -770,7 +770,11 @@ class EditorWindow:
         return idleConf.GetExtensions()
 
     def load_extension(self, name):
-        mod = __import__(name, globals(), locals(), [])
+        try:
+            mod = __import__(name, globals(), locals(), [])
+        except ImportError:
+            print "\nFailed to import extension: ", name
+            return None
         cls = getattr(mod, name)
         ins = cls(self)
         self.extensions[name] = ins
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 9cbfa8e69398..0ffb65606d52 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.0.4?
 
 *Release date: XX-Jan-2005*
 
+- If an extension can't be loaded, print warning and skip it instead of
+  erroring out.
+
 - Improve error handling when .idlerc can't be created.  This is a partial
   backport of configHandler.py, Revision 1.36,  11Jan05.