Useful extra bits for Python - things that shold be in the standard library
extras is a set of extensions to the Python standard library, originally written to make the code within testtools cleaner, but now split out for general use outside of a testing context.
pydoc extras is your friend. extras currently contains the following functions:
try_import
try_imports
safe_hasattr
Which do what their name suggests.
This project is distributed under the MIT license and copyright is owned by the extras authors. See LICENSE for details.
Please report bugs using github issues at https://github.com/testing-cabal/extras. Patches can also be submitted via github. You can mail the authors directly via the mailing list testtools-dev@lists.launchpad.net. (Note that Launchpad discards email from unknown addresses - be sure to sign up for a Launchpad account before mailing the list, or your mail will be silently discarded).
extras used to be testtools.helpers, and was factored out when folk wanted to use it separately.