From 6168e714be333b633dfa7e2d25549dea97a53431 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Galindo Salgado Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:37:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gh-98254: Add what's new entry for the improvement in commit bb56dead336357153a0c3b8cc9d9d6856d2c5a03 (#99197) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst index 3802d0e3241..5e8d9713f83 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ Important deprecations, removals or restrictions: Improved Error Messages ======================= +* Modules from the standard library are now potentially suggested as part of + the error messages displayed by the interpreter when a :exc:`NameError` is + raised to the top level. Contributed by Pablo Galindo in :gh:`98254`. + + >>> sys.version_info + Traceback (most recent call last): + File "", line 1, in + NameError: name 'sys' is not defined. Did you forget to import 'sys'? + * Improve the error suggestion for :exc:`NameError` exceptions for instances. Now if a :exc:`NameError` is raised in a method and the instance has an attribute that's exactly equal to the name in the exception, the suggestion