[Python-Dev] Syntax suggestion for imports

[Aahz]

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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