LGTM.com - false positive - Import is not used
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Description
**Description of the false positive**
The import **is** used in the sense that succeeding/failing to import sets a global variable.
```python
have_numpy = True
try:
import numpy
except ImportError:
have_numpy = False
```
This pattern is quite common.
**URL to the alert on the project page on LGTM.com**
https://lgtm.com/projects/g/pydicom/pydicom/snapshot/c9a698b7632de3b412a402962a3af0b19ba8e53b/files/pydicom/config.py?sort=name&dir=ASC&mode=heatmap#x83292be155c0c9c8:1
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