[Python-Dev] Alternative imports (Re: Python 3 design principles)
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 1 05:32:45 CEST 2005
Oren Tirosh wrote:
> Writing programs that run on both 2.x and 3 may require ugly
> version-dependent tricks like:
>
> try:
> compile
> except NameError:
> from sys import compile
Just had a weird thought. What if you could write
from sys or __builtin__ import compile
which would be equivalent to
try:
from sys import compile
except ImportError:
from __builtin__ import compile
Greg
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