Simon Percivall wrote:
> Wouldn't a (stdlib) function suffice in the cases where this is needed?
>
> ET = import_with_alternative("xml.etree.CElementTree", "cElementTree",
> "elementtree.ElementTree")
>
> It's not as elegant, but it's easier than status quo.
>
I like that direction a lot better than the syntax proposals. This isn't
the kind of thing that needs to get composed into bigger expressions,
which is where clever uses of operators really shine. Here, I think the
operators were subtracting clarity and your named function was adding
clarity.
When I saw the OP, I actually wondered why people whose codebases are
"filled" with the same try/except block over and over hadn't just
written their own import_with_alternative function in the first place.
If I wanted half my lines of code to be devoted to control flow and
block structure, I'd write in one of those curly-brace languages :)
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