Issue8297: module attribute lookup failures now include module name in error message.

Lib/test/test_doctest.py

@@ -2171,7 +2171,7 @@ def test_DocTestSuite():
          >>> test.test_doctest.sillySetup
          Traceback (most recent call last):
          ...
-         AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'sillySetup'
+         AttributeError: module 'test.test_doctest' has no attribute 'sillySetup'
 
        The setUp and tearDown funtions are passed test objects. Here
        we'll use the setUp function to supply the missing variable y:
@@ -2317,7 +2317,7 @@ def test_DocFileSuite():
          >>> test.test_doctest.sillySetup
          Traceback (most recent call last):
          ...
-         AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'sillySetup'
+         AttributeError: module 'test.test_doctest' has no attribute 'sillySetup'
 
        The setUp and tearDown funtions are passed test objects.
        Here, we'll use a setUp function to set the favorite color in

Lib/test/test_module.py

@@ -30,6 +30,22 @@ class ModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
             pass
         self.assertEqual(foo.__doc__, ModuleType.__doc__)
 
+    def test_unintialized_missing_getattr(self):
+        # Issue 8297
+        # test the text in the AttributeError of an uninitialized module
+        foo = ModuleType.__new__(ModuleType)
+        self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                AttributeError, "module has no attribute 'not_here'",
+                getattr, foo, "not_here")
+
+    def test_missing_getattr(self):
+        # Issue 8297
+        # test the text in the AttributeError
+        foo = ModuleType("foo")
+        self.assertRaisesRegex(
+                AttributeError, "module 'foo' has no attribute 'not_here'",
+                getattr, foo, "not_here")
+
     def test_no_docstring(self):
         # Regularly initialized module, no docstring
         foo = ModuleType("foo")

Lib/unittest/test/test_loader.py

@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class Test_TestLoader(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             loader.loadTestsFromName('unittest.sdasfasfasdf')
         except AttributeError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), "'module' object has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "module 'unittest' has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
         else:
             self.fail("TestLoader.loadTestsFromName failed to raise AttributeError")
 
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ class Test_TestLoader(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             loader.loadTestsFromName('sdasfasfasdf', unittest)
         except AttributeError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), "'module' object has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "module 'unittest' has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
         else:
             self.fail("TestLoader.loadTestsFromName failed to raise AttributeError")
 
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ class Test_TestLoader(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             loader.loadTestsFromNames(['unittest.sdasfasfasdf', 'unittest'])
         except AttributeError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), "'module' object has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "module 'unittest' has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
         else:
             self.fail("TestLoader.loadTestsFromNames failed to raise AttributeError")
 
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ class Test_TestLoader(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             loader.loadTestsFromNames(['sdasfasfasdf'], unittest)
         except AttributeError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), "'module' object has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "module 'unittest' has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
         else:
             self.fail("TestLoader.loadTestsFromName failed to raise AttributeError")
 
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ class Test_TestLoader(unittest.TestCase):
         try:
             loader.loadTestsFromNames(['TestCase', 'sdasfasfasdf'], unittest)
         except AttributeError as e:
-            self.assertEqual(str(e), "'module' object has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
+            self.assertEqual(str(e), "module 'unittest' has no attribute 'sdasfasfasdf'")
         else:
             self.fail("TestLoader.loadTestsFromName failed to raise AttributeError")
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of
   subclasses.  Patch by Peter Ingebretson.
 
+- Issue #8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module name
+  in the error text.  Original patch by ysj.ray.
+
 - Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
 
 - Issue #12546: Allow \x00 to be used as a fill character when using str, int,

Objects/moduleobject.c

@@ -411,6 +411,31 @@ module_repr(PyModuleObject *m)
     return PyObject_CallMethod(interp->importlib, "_module_repr", "O", m);
 }
 
+static PyObject*
+module_getattr(PyObject *m, PyObject *name)
+{
+    PyModuleObject *module;
+    PyObject *attr, *mod_name;
+    attr = PyObject_GenericGetAttr(m, name);
+    if (attr != NULL)
+        return attr;
+    PyErr_Clear();
+    module = (PyModuleObject*)m;
+    if (module->md_dict != NULL) {
+        mod_name = PyDict_GetItemString(module->md_dict, "__name__");
+        if (mod_name != NULL) {
+            PyErr_Format(PyExc_AttributeError,
+                        "module '%U' has no attribute '%U'", mod_name, name);
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        else if (PyErr_Occurred())
+            PyErr_Clear();
+    }
+    PyErr_Format(PyExc_AttributeError,
+                "module has no attribute '%U'", name);
+    return NULL;
+}
+
 static int
 module_traverse(PyModuleObject *m, visitproc visit, void *arg)
 {
@@ -464,7 +489,6 @@ static PyMethodDef module_methods[] = {
     {0}
 };
 
-
 PyDoc_STRVAR(module_doc,
 "module(name[, doc])\n\
 \n\
@@ -488,7 +512,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyModule_Type = {
     0,                                          /* tp_hash */
     0,                                          /* tp_call */
     0,                                          /* tp_str */
-    PyObject_GenericGetAttr,                    /* tp_getattro */
+    module_getattr,                             /* tp_getattro */
     PyObject_GenericSetAttr,                    /* tp_setattro */
     0,                                          /* tp_as_buffer */
     Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC |