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zipimport.ZipImportError

module exceptions

A module could not be imported from a ZIP archive (a subclass of ImportError).

Syntax

raise zipimport.ZipImportError

It subclasses ImportError, so a plain except ImportError already catches it; a dedicated branch pays off only when you need to tell a broken archive apart from a module that simply isn't there. It comes from the zipimport machinery: zipimporter(path) raises it when the path doesn't point to a readable ZIP archive. You almost never raise it yourself — it shows up on its own once a .zip entry lands on sys.path.

Examples

import zipimport
try:
    raise zipimport.ZipImportError
except zipimport.ZipImportError as e:
    print(type(e).__name__)   # → ZipImportError

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