Thomas Guettler wrote: > If you look at this code, you see there are two kind of ImportErrors: > > 1. app_name has no attribute or file managment.py: That's OK. > 2. managment.py exists, but raises an ImportError: That's not OK: reraise > > # Import the 'management' module within each installed app, to > register > # dispatcher events. > for app_name in settings.INSTALLED_APPS: > try: > __import__(app_name + '.management', {}, {}, ['']) > except ImportError, exc: > if exc.args[0]!='No module named management': > raise > > > I am searching a better solution, since in a future version of python > the string 'No module namend management' might be changed. > > Any better solution?
An alternative way to determine the expected message: try: import sys.pink_elephant except ImportError, e: expected_message = e.message.replace("pink_elephant", "management") else: raise Exception("your python has swallowed a pink elephant") I'm probably not serious. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list