ImportError: DLL Load Failure: The specified module cannot be found

[xoviat]

BPO	31941
Nosy	@bitdancer, @xoviat
Superseder	bpo-25655: Python errors related to failures loading DLL's lack information

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2017-11-04.02:32:58.947>
created_at = <Date 2017-11-04.02:26:04.846>
labels = ['type-feature']
title = 'ImportError: DLL Load Failure: The specified module cannot be found'
updated_at = <Date 2017-11-04.02:32:58.889>
user = 'https://github.com/xoviat'

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type = 'enhancement'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue31941'
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[xoviat]

Yes, I know that this isn't Python's fault. I know how to resolve the problem. But what's frustrating is that this error message is totally unhelpful, because it doesn't contain the DLL that Python is looking for.

Yes, I know that the error message is just directly from windows. But there has to be some way to make this error message more helpful. There has to be some way to tell the user what the name of the DLL is. Because the current state of this error message is sad.

[bitdancer]

Duplicate of bpo-25655. Any concrete proposals for how to make this better are welcome.