[Python-Dev] Syntax suggestion for imports (original) (raw)

Simon Percivall percivall at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 15:28:54 CET 2008


On 3 jan 2008, at 02.19, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

How about a new, simpler syntax:

* import threading or dummythreading as threading * import xml.etree.CElementTree or cElementTree or elementree.ElementTree as ET * from cStringIO or StringIO import StringIO * import readline or emptymodule

Wouldn't a (stdlib) function suffice in the cases where this is needed?

ET = import_with_alternative("xml.etree.CElementTree", "cElementTree",
"elementtree.ElementTree")

It's not as elegant, but it's easier than status quo.

//Simon



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