Importing Version Specific Modules

[Michael Crute]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM,  <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>    Michael> try:
>    Michael>     from string import Template
>    Michael> except ImportError:
>    Michael>     from our.compat.string import Template
>
> This is "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" (EAFP).  This tends to
> be more Pythonic (and thus, preferred).  You don't *really* care what the
> version just, but whether or not the string module has a Template object.
> Besides, what if some bright admin at some customer decides to backport the
> Template implementation to their 2.4 installation?  The first form would
> load your compatibility version, probably not what they were hoping when
> they put in the effort to backport.

That was the kind of reasoning I'm looking for. I'll stick with the
pythonic try/except approach then.

-mike

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