Bring back the ascii art goblin! For python 2 anyway.

This does a "friendly" fallback where it skips the middleware on python 3.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mediagoblin/errormiddleware.py b/mediagoblin/errormiddleware.py
index c6789f32..da729d14 100644
--- a/mediagoblin/errormiddleware.py
+++ b/mediagoblin/errormiddleware.py
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-from paste.exceptions.errormiddleware import make_error_middleware
-
 MGOBLIN_ERROR_MESSAGE = """\
 <div style="text-align:center;font-family: monospace">
   <h1>YEOWCH... that's an error!</h1>
@@ -56,5 +54,11 @@ def mgoblin_error_middleware(app, global_conf, **kw):
     It should take all of Paste's default options, so see:
       http://pythonpaste.org/modules/exceptions.html
     """
+    # No paste?  Fail in a friendly way!
+    try:
+        from paste.exceptions.errormiddleware import make_error_middleware
+    except ImportError:
+        return app
+
     kw['error_message'] = MGOBLIN_ERROR_MESSAGE
     return make_error_middleware(app, global_conf, **kw)
diff --git a/paste.ini b/paste.ini
index 77364c09..68fd9dea 100644
--- a/paste.ini
+++ b/paste.ini
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 debug = false
 
 [pipeline:main]
-# pipeline = errors mediagoblin
-pipeline = mediagoblin
+pipeline = errors mediagoblin
 
 [app:mediagoblin]
 use = egg:mediagoblin#app