Index: pluginconf/__init__.py
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--- pluginconf/__init__.py
+++ pluginconf/__init__.py
@@ -185,11 +185,11 @@
 
 
 # Resource retrieval
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
 @renamed_arguments({"fn": "filename", "gz": "gzip"})
-def get_data(filename, decode=False, gzip=False, file_root=None):
+def get_data(filename, decode=False, gzip=False, file_root=None, warn=True):
     """
     Fetches file content from install path or from within PYZ
     archive. This is just an alias and convenience wrapper for
     pkgutil.get_data().
     Utilizes the data_root as top-level reference.
@@ -208,11 +208,12 @@
             data = gzip_decode(data)
         if decode:
             return data.decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
         return str(data)
     except: #(FileNotFoundError, IOError, OSError, ImportError, gzip.BadGzipFile):
-        log.warning("get_data() didn't find '%s' in '%s'", filename, file_root)
+        if warn:
+            log.warning("get_data() didn't find '%s' in '%s'", filename, file_root)
 
 
 # Plugin name lookup
 # ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾
 def module_list(extra_paths=None):
@@ -289,15 +290,17 @@
     if module:
         search = plugin_base + kwargs.get("extra_base", [])
         for base, sfx in itertools.product(search, [".py", "/__init__.py"]):
             try:
                 #log.debug(f"mod={base} fn={filename}.py")
-                src = get_data(filename=module+sfx, decode=True, file_root=base)
+                src = get_data(filename=module+sfx, decode=True, file_root=base, warn=False)
                 if src:
                     break
             except (IOError, OSError, FileNotFoundError):
                 continue  # plugin_meta_extract() will print a notice later
+        else:
+            log.warning("Found no source candidate for '%s'", module)
         filename = module
 
     # Real filename/path
     elif filename and os.path.exists(filename):
         src = open(filename).read(kwargs.get("max_length", 6144))