[PATCH] extensions: print some debug info on import failure

Greg Ward greg-hg at gerg.ca
Sun Oct 2 17:34:40 CDT 2011


# HG changeset patch
# User Greg Ward <greg at gerg.ca>
# Date 1317501759 14400
# Node ID f6469a287346f770df4783b1cbfc094b37dd9d35
# Parent  6fd1ab0c79fd2f1718de84fdb8cdeb9e39ecd1ac
extensions: print some debug info on import failure

This is handy if hgext.foo exists but has a bogus "import blah":
previously we just discarded the "No module named blah" error. Now at
least you can see it with --debug. Not perfect, but better than
nothing.

diff --git a/mercurial/extensions.py b/mercurial/extensions.py
--- a/mercurial/extensions.py
+++ b/mercurial/extensions.py
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@
             return mod
         try:
             mod = importh("hgext.%s" % name)
-        except ImportError:
+        except ImportError, err:
+            ui.debug('could not import hgext.%s (%s): trying %s\n'
+                     % (name, err, name))
             mod = importh(name)
     _extensions[shortname] = mod
     _order.append(shortname)


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