old_contents: try:
      import pync
      pync_available = True
  except ImportError:
      pync_available = False
  
  import platform
  
  from .alerter import Alerter
  
  
  class NotificationCenterAlerter(Alerter):
      """Send alerts to the Mac OS X Notification Center."""
  
      def __init__(self, config_options):
          Alerter.__init__(self, config_options)
          if not pync_available:
              self.alerter_logger.critical("Pync package is not available, which is necessary to use NotificationCenterAlerter.")
              self.alerter_logger.critical("Try: pip install -r requirements.txt")
              return
  
          if platform.system() != "Darwin":
              self.alerter_logger.critical("This alerter (currently) only works on Mac OS X!")
              return
  
      def send_alert(self, name, monitor):
          """Send the message."""
  
          alert_type = self.should_alert(monitor)
          message = ""
  
          if alert_type == "":
              return
          elif alert_type == "failure":
              message = "Monitor {} failed!".format(name)
          elif alert_type == "success":
              message = "Monitor {} succeeded.".format(name)
          else:
              self.alerter_logger.error("Unknown alert type: {}".format(alert_type))
              return
  
          if not self.dry_run:
              pync.notify(message=message, title="SimpleMonitor")
          else:
              self.alerter_logger.info("dry_run: would send message: {}".format(message))
  
new_contents: try:
      import pync
      pync_available = True
  except Exception:
      pync_available = False
  
  import platform
  
  from .alerter import Alerter
  
  
  class NotificationCenterAlerter(Alerter):
      """Send alerts to the Mac OS X Notification Center."""
  
      def __init__(self, config_options):
          Alerter.__init__(self, config_options)
          if not pync_available:
              self.alerter_logger.critical("Pync package is not available, which is necessary to use NotificationCenterAlerter.")
              self.alerter_logger.critical("Try: pip install -r requirements.txt")
              return
  
          if platform.system() != "Darwin":
              self.alerter_logger.critical("This alerter (currently) only works on Mac OS X!")
              return
  
      def send_alert(self, name, monitor):
          """Send the message."""
  
          alert_type = self.should_alert(monitor)
          message = ""
  
          if alert_type == "":
              return
          elif alert_type == "failure":
              message = "Monitor {} failed!".format(name)
          elif alert_type == "success":
              message = "Monitor {} succeeded.".format(name)
          else:
              self.alerter_logger.error("Unknown alert type: {}".format(alert_type))
              return
  
          if not self.dry_run:
              pync.notify(message=message, title="SimpleMonitor")
          else:
              self.alerter_logger.info("dry_run: would send message: {}".format(message))
  
subject: Handle exception thrown by pync on non-mac OS