[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)
Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Tue Jul 27 19:29:21 CEST 2004
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Tim Peters wrote:
[Charles Cazabon]
This is a bit I've never been quite sure of. If a module knows it imports something not available everywhere, and can handle that bit missing, shouldn't it already wrap its import of that module in a try: ... except ImportError: block? Sure! Jim wants to distinguish "absenceness" from "brokenness" for some reason. It's not clear to my why
Because a broken module is something that should get fixed.
Hiding errors is a bad thing. It's like using hasattr. :)
Jim
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