[Python-Dev] Investigating time for import requests (original) (raw)

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sun Oct 8 18:46:12 EDT 2017

The easiest workaround at the moment is still pretty clumsy:

def importSLLError(): from requests.exceptions import SLLError return SLLError ...

except importSLLError(): But what happens if that gives you an ImportError?

You can't catch a requests exception unless requests has already been imported, you could do something like:

 except Exception as ex:
     if 'requests' in sys.modules:
         import requests  # this is basically free at this point
         if isinstance(ex, requests.exceptions):
             ...

Eric.

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