fix: make exceptions importable from coverage.misc again. #1226

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 784fa5c2..3dea0df1 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ This list is detailed and covers changes in each pre-release version.
 Unreleased
 ----------
 
+- In 6.0, the coverage.py exceptions moved from coverage.misc to
+  coverage.exceptions. These exceptions are not part of the public supported
+  API, CoverageException is. But a number of other third-party packages were
+  importing the exceptions from coverage.misc, so they are now available from
+  there again (`issue 1226`_).
+
 - Changed an internal detail of how tomli is imported, so that tomli can use
   coverage.py for their own test suite (`issue 1228`_).
 
@@ -29,8 +35,9 @@ Unreleased
   function can have an argument called "self", but no local named "self"
   (`pull request 1210`_).  Thanks, Ben Carlsson.
 
-.. _issue 1228: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1228
 .. _pull request 1210: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/pull/1210
+.. _issue 1226: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1226
+.. _issue 1228: https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/issues/1228
 
 
 .. _changes_60:
diff --git a/coverage/misc.py b/coverage/misc.py
index cd4a7740..0f985be0 100644
--- a/coverage/misc.py
+++ b/coverage/misc.py
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ import types
 from coverage import env
 from coverage.exceptions import CoverageException
 
+# In 6.0, the exceptions moved from misc.py to exceptions.py.  But a number of
+# other packages were importing the exceptions from misc, so import them here.
+# pylint: disable=unused-wildcard-import
+from coverage.exceptions import *   # pylint: disable=wildcard-import
+
 ISOLATED_MODULES = {}