On Nov 15, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote: > PS : @Dave there is a way to avoiding adding symbols to your global > namespace, assign None to the module's name on import errors. Then before > using it, just test the module bool value : if serial: serial.whateverMethod()
True, and that does avoid polluting namespace. However, you shouldn't be testing for None as a bool; you should instead do an "if <module> is None:" (or, of course, "is not None"). - Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
