Trent Mick wrote:
> That is the current state.
which reminds that maybe it's time to add an import helper to
the standard library, so you can do
stringio = import_search("cStringIO", "StringIO")
ET = import_search("lxml.etree", "cElementTree", "xml.etree.cElementTree")
db = import_search("superdb", "sqlite3", "fancydb", "dumbdb")
etc. without having to type in
for mod in ("cStringIO", "StringIO"):
try:
m = __import__(mod)
for p in mod.split(".")[1:]:
m = getattr(m, p, None)
if m is None:
raise ImportError
return m
except ImportError:
pass
else:
raise ImportError(mod)
all the time (or create those horridly nested try-except constructs).
or perhaps
try:
import cStringIO as stringio
retry ImportError:
import StringIO as stringio
except ImportError:
print "didn't work!"
would be a solution (sorry, wrong list).
</F>
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