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	Issue #15767: Introduce ModuleNotFoundError, a subclass of
ImportError.
The exception is raised by import when a module could not be found.
Technically this is defined as no viable loader could be found for the
specified module. This includes ``from ... import`` statements so that
the module usage is consistent for all situations where import
couldn't find what was requested.
This should allow for the common idiom of::
  try:
    import something
  except ImportError:
    pass
to be updated to using ModuleNotFoundError and not accidentally mask
ImportError messages that should propagate (e.g. issues with a
loader).
This work was driven by the fact that the ``from ... import``
statement needed to be able to tell the difference between an
ImportError that simply couldn't find a module (and thus silence the
exception so that ceval can raise it) and an ImportError that
represented an actual problem.
			
			
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		|  | @ -709,6 +709,13 @@ ComplexExtendsException(PyExc_Exception, ImportError, | |||
|                         "Import can't find module, or can't find name in " | ||||
|                         "module."); | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| /*
 | ||||
|  *    ModuleNotFoundError extends ImportError | ||||
|  */ | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| MiddlingExtendsException(PyExc_ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError, ImportError, | ||||
|                          "Module not found."); | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| /*
 | ||||
|  *    OSError extends Exception | ||||
|  */ | ||||
|  | @ -2395,6 +2402,7 @@ _PyExc_Init(PyObject *bltinmod) | |||
|     PRE_INIT(SystemExit) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(KeyboardInterrupt) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(ImportError) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(ModuleNotFoundError) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(OSError) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(EOFError) | ||||
|     PRE_INIT(RuntimeError) | ||||
|  | @ -2465,6 +2473,7 @@ _PyExc_Init(PyObject *bltinmod) | |||
|     POST_INIT(SystemExit) | ||||
|     POST_INIT(KeyboardInterrupt) | ||||
|     POST_INIT(ImportError) | ||||
|     POST_INIT(ModuleNotFoundError) | ||||
|     POST_INIT(OSError) | ||||
|     INIT_ALIAS(EnvironmentError, OSError) | ||||
|     INIT_ALIAS(IOError, OSError) | ||||
|  |  | |||
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