Handling import errors

[Guillaume Martel-Genest]

What is the pythonic way to handle imports error? What is bugging me
is that the imports can't be inside a function (because I use them in
different places in the script and thus they have to be in the global
scope). I would write something like:

try:

 

[Tim Johnson]

What is the pythonic way to handle imports error? What is bugging me
is that the imports can't be inside a function (because I use them in
different places in the script and thus they have to be in the global
scope). I would write something like:

Suppose you do something like this:
try :
mod = __import__('mymodulename')
except ImportError:
pass ## replace with error handling here

so `mod' is global if you execute the above code as top-level,
*but* you can also pass `mod' as an argument like any other
variable, as far as I know and far as I have done.