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Subject: Re: Use and usefulness of the as syntax
From: Tim Wintle <tim.wintle@teamrubber.com>
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On Sat, 2011-11-12 at 12:56 +0100, candide wrote:

> So what is the pragmatics of the as syntax ?

Another case:

try:
    import json
except:
    import simplejson as json


(same goes for several modules where the C implementation may or may not
be available)

Tim