@pyimport on julia 1.0: ERROR: syntax: unsupported const declaration on local variable

[jbrea]

On julia 1.0, with PyCall#master I get

julia> using PyCall

julia> try
           @pyimport pip
       catch
           println("failed")
       end
ERROR: syntax: unsupported `const` declaration on local variable around /home/j/.julia/packages/PyCall/lhrke/src/PyCall.jl:526

julia> @pyimport pip

julia> 

[stevengj]

Put a global pip statement in the try block. See also JuliaLang/julia#28789

@pyimport is going away in the near future anyway — see also #517. You will just do pip = pyimport("pip"), and the scoping will be explicit.