From f682059bde4346b8949cad647ce17a2a349348cb 2015-12-21 14:45:31
From: Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-12-21 14:45:31
Subject: [PATCH] Switch to try/except ImportError.
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diff --git a/IPython/lib/latextools.py b/IPython/lib/latextools.py
index 446efdf..159b822 100644
--- a/IPython/lib/latextools.py
+++ b/IPython/lib/latextools.py
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ from traitlets.config.configurable import SingletonConfigurable
 from traitlets import List, Bool, Unicode
 from IPython.utils.py3compat import cast_unicode, cast_unicode_py2 as u, PY3
 
-if PY3:
+try: # Py3
     from base64 import encodebytes
-else :
+except ImportError: # Py2
     from base64 import encodestring as encodebytes