Conditionally subclassing based on Import

David Pratt

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#1: Oct 3 '08

Hi, just want to conditionally base a class on another if it can be
imported, otherwise base it on object. Does the following look ok
for this?

try:
import foo.bar
except ImportError:
MyBase = foo.bar.Baz
else:
MyBase = object

class Something(MyBase):

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