Hello Ludovic,

Apologies for a long reply.

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Ping!
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> OK for the patch, but please simply replace ‘leave’ with ‘warning’.

I think the patch is no longer needed, because ‘pypi->guix-package’
returns false (‘#f’) and REPL survives if a package doesn't exist:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guix import pypi)> (pypi->guix-package "psutil")

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.9Q8PGN
From https://pypi.python.org/packages/e2/e1/600326635f97fee89bf8426fef14c5c29f4849c79f68fd79f433d8c1bd96/psutil-5.4.3.tar.gz...
 …4.3.tar.gz  403KiB                  1.6MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%

Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.Vn9nDZ
From https://pypi.python.org/packages/e5/cc/6dd427e738a8db6d0b66525856da43d2ef12c4c19269863927f7cf0e2aaf/psutil-5.4.3-cp27-none-win32.whl...
 …7-none-win32.whl  216KiB            1.3MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
$3 = (package (name "python-psutil") #; more fields here)
scheme@(guix import pypi)> (pypi->guix-package "psutils") ; ‘psutils’ doesn't exist in ‘pypi’
$4 = #f
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

WDYT?

> Note that at the REPL you can always do:
>
>   (catch 'quit (lambda () …) (const #f))

Thank you!  Based on this I wrote a macro:

   (define-macro (try function)
    `(catch 'quit (lambda () ,function) (const #f)))

but I don't know how to make it available after invoking ‘guile’ in
Bash.  Putting the macro in ‘~/.guile’ doesn't help unfortunately.

Thanks,
Oleg.