[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data
Jim Fulton
jim at zope.com
Tue Jul 27 19:07:01 CEST 2004
Tim Peters wrote:
> [Jim Fulton]
>
>>...
>>No. I'm proposing a way for a Python developer to detect the
>>presence or absence of a module.
>
>
> Seems to me a module is present if and only if you try to import it,
> and the import succeeds, or the import fails and the module name is in
> sys.modules after.
That's a definition I don't really care for at all.
It's like saying that an object has an attribute if
trying to get the attribute doesn't raise an error. :)
Seems to me a module isn't present if it's implementation
isn't in an import path. To me a module is broken if it
has an implementation that fails.
Jim
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