Merge pull request plotly#169 from plotly/import-test

improve dash import test

packages/dash-html-components/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [UNRELEASED]
+### Fixed
+- [#169](https://github.com/plotly/dash-html-components/pull/169) - part of fixing dash import bug https://github.com/plotly/dash/issues/1143
+
 ## [1.1.1] - 2020-09-03
--Dash.jl Julia component generation
+- Dash.jl Julia component generation
 
 ## [1.1.0] - 2020-08-25
 ### Added

packages/dash-html-components/dash_html_components_base/__init__.py

@@ -16,18 +16,9 @@
 __version__ = package['version']
 
 # Module imports trigger a dash.development import, need to check this first
-if not hasattr(_dash, 'development'):
-    print(
-        "Dash was not successfully imported. Make sure you don't have a file "
-        "named \n'dash.py' in your current directory.", file=_sys.stderr)
-    _sys.exit(1)
-
-# Must update to dash>=0.22.0 to use this version of dash-html-components
-if not hasattr(_dash.development.base_component, '_explicitize_args'):
-    print("Please update the `dash` module to >= 0.22.0 to use this "
-          "version of dash_html_components.\n"
-          "You are using version {:s}".format(_dash.version.__version__),
-          file=_sys.stderr)
+if not hasattr(_dash, '__plotly_dash') and not hasattr(_dash, 'development'):
+    print("Dash was not successfully imported. Make sure you don't have a file "
+          "named \n'dash.py' in your current directory.", file=_sys.stderr)
     _sys.exit(1)