[Python-Dev] Alternative imports (Re: Python 3 design principles) (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 1 05:32:45 CEST 2005
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Oren Tirosh wrote:
Writing programs that run on both 2.x and 3 may require ugly version-dependent tricks like:
try: compile except NameError: from sys import compile
Just had a weird thought. What if you could write
from sys or builtin import compile
which would be equivalent to
try: from sys import compile except ImportError: from builtin import compile
Greg
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