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On 2/15/2012 3:28 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> Are you doing a conditional import, one that takes place after load
> time?  If you do an import within a function or class, it is executed
> when the code around it executes.  If you import a file with a
> syntax error during execution, you could get the error message you're
> getting.
It does have conditional imports, but the tracebacks don't occur while
that function is running (it's executed once, and this happens well after).

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