Merge pull request #610 from zen-xu/detect-pkg

refactor: Optimize the detection of whether a package is installed.

connectorx-python/connectorx/__init__.py

@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from typing import Any, Literal, TYPE_CHECKING, overload
 
+import importlib
 from importlib.metadata import version
 
+from typing import Any, Literal, TYPE_CHECKING, overload
+
 from .connectorx import (
     read_sql as _read_sql,
     partition_sql as _partition_sql,
@@ -311,10 +313,7 @@ def read_sql(
         if return_type == "pandas":
             df = df.to_pandas(date_as_object=False, split_blocks=False)
         if return_type == "polars":
-            try:
-                import polars as pl
-            except ModuleNotFoundError:
-                raise ValueError("You need to install polars first")
+            pl = try_import_module("polars")
 
             try:
                 # api change for polars >= 0.8.*
@@ -350,10 +349,7 @@ def read_sql(
     conn, protocol = rewrite_conn(conn, protocol)
 
     if return_type in {"modin", "dask", "pandas"}:
-        try:
-            import pandas
-        except ModuleNotFoundError:
-            raise ValueError("You need to install pandas first")
+        try_import_module("pandas")
 
         result = _read_sql(
             conn,
@@ -368,25 +364,14 @@ def read_sql(
             df.set_index(index_col, inplace=True)
 
         if return_type == "modin":
-            try:
-                import modin.pandas as mpd
-            except ModuleNotFoundError:
-                raise ValueError("You need to install modin first")
-
+            mpd = try_import_module("modin.pandas")
             df = mpd.DataFrame(df)
         elif return_type == "dask":
-            try:
-                import dask.dataframe as dd
-            except ModuleNotFoundError:
-                raise ValueError("You need to install dask first")
-
+            dd = try_import_module("dask.dataframe")
             df = dd.from_pandas(df, npartitions=1)
 
     elif return_type in {"arrow", "arrow2", "polars", "polars2"}:
-        try:
-            import pyarrow
-        except ModuleNotFoundError:
-            raise ValueError("You need to install pyarrow first")
+        try_import_module("pyarrow")
 
         result = _read_sql(
             conn,
@@ -397,11 +382,7 @@ def read_sql(
         )
         df = reconstruct_arrow(result)
         if return_type in {"polars", "polars2"}:
-            try:
-                import polars as pl
-            except ModuleNotFoundError:
-                raise ValueError("You need to install polars first")
-
+            pl = try_import_module("polars")
             try:
                 df = pl.DataFrame.from_arrow(df)
             except AttributeError:
@@ -488,3 +469,10 @@ def remove_ending_semicolon(query: str) -> str:
     if query.endswith(";"):
         query = query[:-1]
     return query
+
+
+def try_import_module(name: str):
+    try:
+        return importlib.import_module(name)
+    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+        raise ValueError(f"You need to install {name.split('.')[0]} first")