On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:32:44 -0400, Jed Smith wrote: > >> simplejson got merged into the standard library in Python 2.6. In >> libcloud, I wrote this: >> >> try: import json >> except ImportError, excp: import simplejson as json > > I'm curious why you bother to bind the exception to the excp when you > don't actually use it? If this occurs in the top level of a module, it > just introduces an apparently unneeded and unused global name.
Typed from memory, and now that you mention it, I don't think I actually did. At any rate, we mandated 2.6 and it's no longer there. -- Jed Smith j...@jedsmith.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
