From c736b80290dfd650bee0fa3c530da65792dcde32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Tamlyn
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:52:20 +0000
Subject: Be more informative when reporting import errors.

---
 rest_framework/settings.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'rest_framework/settings.py')

diff --git a/rest_framework/settings.py b/rest_framework/settings.py
index ee24a4ad..5c77c55c 100644
--- a/rest_framework/settings.py
+++ b/rest_framework/settings.py
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ def import_from_string(val, setting_name):
         module_path, class_name = '.'.join(parts[:-1]), parts[-1]
         module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
         return getattr(module, class_name)
-    except:
-        msg = "Could not import '%s' for API setting '%s'" % (val, setting_name)
+    except ImportError as e:
+        msg = "Could not import '%s' for API setting '%s'. %s: %s." % (val, setting_name, e.__class__.__name__, e)
         raise ImportError(msg)
 
 
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