Communicate potential error with pytables

thouska · Jun 27, 2019 · 2a0ddf6 · 2a0ddf6
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diff --git a/spotpy/database/__init__.py b/spotpy/database/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ def __getattr__(name):
     names = __dir__()
     print(names)
     if name in names:
-        db_module = import_module('.' + name, __name__)
+        try:
+            db_module = import_module('.' + name, __name__)
+        except ImportError:
+            db_module = import_module('.base', __name__)
         return getattr(db_module, name)
     else:
         raise AttributeError('{} is not a member of spotpy.database')

diff --git a/spotpy/database/hdf5.py b/spotpy/database/hdf5.py
@@ -16,7 +16,12 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 from .base import database
-import tables
+try:
+    import tables
+except ImportError:
+    print('ImportError: Pytables is not correctly installed. Please also make sure you',
+          'installed the hdf5 extension (https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/)')
+    raise
 import sys
 if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
     unicode = str