I'm just trying out Maya 2017 and seen that they've gone over to PySide2, which is great but all of my tools have import PySide or from PySide import ... in them.

The obvious solution would be to find/replace import PySide to import PySide2 and hope everything still works after that, but I'd still like to be able to support older versions of Maya.

My idea was to have a single line solution to find/replace like:

import (PySide2 if "PySide2" in sys.modules else PySide)

But this returns: Error: invalid syntax

Does anyone have any ideas for an alternative to this? I'd like to try and keep it on a single line so it's an easy replacement for when I've got conditions like:

from PySide import QtCore, QtGui

Thank you!

You could except the ImportError exception:

try:from Pyside2 import QtCore, QtGuiexcept ImportError:from PySide import QtCore, QtGui

Alternatively, you can use the importlib module:

import importlib
import sysPySide = importlib.import_module('Pyside2' if 'Pyside2' in sys.modules else 'PySide')