I've designed a package that requires another python package, but there are some in my group that would like to make this package optional.
Does anyone have any suggestions/best practices on how handle optional packages?
I was thinking of doing this:
try:
import package
allowFunctions = True
except:
allowFunctions = False
Is this the best way to do handle package checking?
To make this not a duplicate, which I think it isn't, where should the check occur in the package? Should it occur int he main init.py for the package folder? Can all the other subpackages/modules pull from that init.py file the checked variable name?
