Steven D'Aprano scripsit : > If you expect that most of the time the module will be found, the > try...except version will be faster. If you expect that most of the time > the module will not be found, the "if name in" version will be faster. > Ok.
In the particular case of __import__, I guess speed is not crucial since I doubt import often happen within a program's inner loop. But I'll remember that point for other cases anyway. >> I'm suspecting that maybe, in multithreaded environments, the second >> option may be subject to a race condition, if another thread removes >> name frome sys.modules between the if and the return, but as I'm not >> very familiar (yet) with Python threads, I'm not sure it is a real >> concern here. > > In practice, no, it would be very unusual for another thread to remove > the name from sys.modules. So don't do that :) > That wasn't my intention. But sometimes other people may be "creative" :) > But in principle, yes, it is a race condition and yes it is a (small) > concern. Since it is so easy to avoid even this tiny risk, why not use > the try...except version and avoid it completely? > Ok. Thanks for your explanations. -- Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard - http://people.math.jussieu.fr/~mpg/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list