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

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jan 3 19:11:58 CET 2008


On Wed, Jan 02, 2008, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Before posting, I ran some scans of our code base at work and found plenty of examples (mostly third-party cmodules vs python equivalents and a few that searched for similar functionality in different packages). It might be helpful if others were to also search their own code bases and post their findings: find . -name "*py" | xargs grep -C2 ImportError *py

Most of my company's examples fall into cases like this:

try: klass = load_class(foo) except ImportError: klass = NullClass

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