[Python-ideas] "maybe import"?

[Guido van Rossum]

We shouldn't encourage optional dependencies. They often make code harder
to reason about or harder to read.

On Thursday, December 26, 2013, Amber Yust wrote:

>  On Thu Dec 26 2013 at 8:57:42 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'greg at krypto.org');>>
> wrote:
> > Such idioms are common.  Though I don't think we should encourage their
> use.
>
> Is this a case of "we shouldn't encourage optional dependencies" or "we
> shouldn't encourage this kind of idiom as a means of implementing optional
> dependencies" - and if the latter, what alternative would you point people
> at instead?
>


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