Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Yes, that's intended. See e.g. the mbcs codec.
If a search function gets an ImportError, it interprets this as "codec is not available/working", and then gives other search functions a chance to find a working one. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28005> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com