From 67ee6bff2e03d4ce1ea3f49fd30ab57d2dae7073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:28:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] restored code removed in r118. there's nothing wrong with
 that code

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : svn%3Ab85faa78-f9eb-468e-a121-7cced6da292c%40120
---
 scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
index 7239eb693..88c0a0436 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/conf/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@ class Settings(object):
         self.core = self._import('scrapy.conf.core_settings')
 
     def _import(self, modulepath):
-        return __import__(modulepath, {}, {}, [''])
+        try:
+            return __import__(modulepath, {}, {}, [''])
+        except ImportError:
+            import sys
+            err = "Error: Can't find %s module in your python path\n"
+            sys.stderr.write(err % modulepath)
+            sys.exit(1)
 
     def __getitem__(self, opt_name):
         if opt_name in self.overrides: