Conditional Import

[Michael Hudson]

Danil <danil at ultranet.com> writes:

> Is there a standard python idiom for coping with importing one of several 
> libraries?
> 
> Right now, I've this hack in the middle of my code
> 
> try:
>     from codeop import CommandCompiler
> except:

make that 

except ImportError:

>     from MockCommandCompiler import CommandCompiler
> 
> But if I have to put up with a work around like this, I'd prefer that it 
> be fairly elegant.  Or at least standard...

try:...except ImportError:...

is standard.


> p.s. because codeop.CommandCompiler fails in 2.1,

I know, I wrote it for 2.2... do the workarounds mentioned in the
docs:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-codeop.html

help?

> and I've yet to find a recipe that will get me to Win32 + Python 2.2
> + pygtk.  That help would be appreciated too; I've been unable to
> find or build a _gtk.pyd that python22 will import.

Can't help you here.

Cheers,
M.

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