Add a compatibility wrapper, so downstream consumers trapping a RequirementParseError will now trap an InvalidRequirement, allowing transition to only trapping an InvalidRequirement.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 56be3c22..1433409a 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -3090,6 +3090,10 @@ def parse_requirements(strs):
         yield Requirement(line)
 
 
+class RequirementParseError(packaging.requirements.InvalidRequirement):
+    "Compatibility wrapper for InvalidRequirement"
+
+
 class Requirement(packaging.requirements.Requirement):
     def __init__(self, requirement_string):
         """DO NOT CALL THIS UNDOCUMENTED METHOD; use Requirement.parse()!"""