On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr <ole-usenet-s...@gmx.net> wrote: >> the AttributeError will come from the attribute lookup - the above code >> can't[1] bomb out with ImportError. > > Maybe it can't but it actually does.
Huh. Okay, my bad. (I don't have a Hurd system to test on, all my Debians are Linux.) Sorry for the misinformation. >> So a more correct way would be something like: >> >> try: >> import multiprocessing >> multiprocessing.Queue >> except (ImportError, AttributeError): >> # handle the absence > > Is it sure that this will work in the future as well? Frankly, I don't know now. It's reasonably likely that it will, but in the absence of actual documentation, I couldn't say. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
