[Python-ideas] import fallback syntax

Thu Mar 8 20:06:45 CET 2012

On Mar 8, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
> Hi All,
>> I see a lot of Python like this:
>> try:
> from cDecimal import Decimal
> except ImportError:
> from decimal import Decimal
>> ...and nest deeper if you're talking about ElementTree.
>> How about some syntactical sugar to make this less obnoxious:
>> from cDecimal or decimal import Decimal
>> from x.y.z import X as X or
> a.b.z import Y as X or
>> what do people think?

It's been proposed before, you might want to read this old thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-January/075788.html
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Philip Jenvey