On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:39 AM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote: > True, and that does avoid polluting namespace. However, you shouldn't be testing for None as a bool; you should instead do an "if <module> is None:" (or, of course, "is not None"). Why not? Is there some other way for the module object to evaluate as false? ChrisA