Issue #28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to propagate.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
index ca07881f34..cf90568605 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/__init__.py
@@ -98,8 +98,9 @@ def search_function(encoding):
             # module with side-effects that is not in the 'encodings' package.
             mod = __import__('encodings.' + modname, fromlist=_import_tail,
                              level=0)
-        except ImportError:
-            pass
+        except ModuleNotFoundError as ex:
+            if ex.name != 'encodings.' + modname:
+                raise
         else:
             break
     else:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b36467776f..fb8a0cb548 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to propagate.
+
 - Issue #27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source
   pointers in the "ctypes" and "array" modules.