Re: the equivalent of python's "try import <something> except: import fallback" ?

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> I don't have the lcrypto binding and need to use a trimdown version.

You can try my lmd5 binding.
 
> And a side question, is there a simple way to add
> serveral frequently used so modules into the
> interpreter for example the bitlib, socket etc. ?

Statically, you mean? Ideally, you'd just add them to linit.c and rebuild
but I think of the modules may need to do some magic to package.loaded and
friends to get it right. (I think this is specially true of luasocket,
but Diego will know for sure.)
--lhf