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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:01:40 +1100
Subject: Re: suppressing import errors
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:39 AM, David Riley <fraveydank@gmail.com> wrote:
> True, and that does avoid polluting namespace. =A0However, you shouldn't =
be testing for None as a bool; you should instead do an "if <module> is Non=
e:" (or, of course, "is not None").

Why not? Is there some other way for the module object to evaluate as false=
?

ChrisA