[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jul 30 04:40:38 CEST 2004


Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com>:

try: import foo except ImportError: # Configure for absense of foo ... else: # Configure for presense of foo ...

Unfortunately, this is a bug trap.

Maybe there's room for another creative use of 'else' here...

import: foo else: # Configure for absense of foo

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