return the error message produced by importlib, so that if an import
in the package whose import is being wrapped is what failed the skip
message will contain the name of that module instead of the name of the
wrapped module. Also fixed formatting of some previous comments.
tests that expect to be skipped if imports fail or functions don't
exist to use import_function and import_module. The ultimate goal is
to change regrtest to not skip automatically on ImportError. Checking
in now to make sure the buldbots don't show any errors on platforms
I can't direct test on.