old_contents: from django.conf import settings
  
  # Add to this list anything country-specific you want to be available
  # through an import from pombola.country.
  
  imports_and_defaults = (
      ('significant_positions_filter', lambda qs: qs),
  )
  
  # Note that one could do this without the dynamic import and use of
  # globals() by switching on country names and importing * from each
  # country specific module, as MapIt does. [1] I slightly prefer the
  # version here since you can explicitly list the names to be imported,
  # and provide a default value.
  #
  # [1] https://github.com/mysociety/mapit/blob/master/mapit/countries/__init__.py
  
  for name_to_import, default_value in imports_and_defaults:
      if settings.COUNTRY_APP:
          try:
              globals()[name_to_import] = \
                  getattr(__import__('pombola.' + settings.COUNTRY_APP + '.lib',
                             fromlist=[name_to_import]),
                          name_to_import)
          except ImportError, AttributeError:
              globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
      else:
          globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
  
new_contents: from django.conf import settings
  
  # Add to this list anything country-specific you want to be available
  # through an import from pombola.country.
  
  imports_and_defaults = (
      ('significant_positions_filter', lambda qs: qs),
  )
  
  # Note that one could do this without the dynamic import and use of
  # globals() by switching on country names and importing * from each
  # country specific module, as MapIt does. [1] I slightly prefer the
  # version here since you can explicitly list the names to be imported,
  # and provide a default value.
  #
  # [1] https://github.com/mysociety/mapit/blob/master/mapit/countries/__init__.py
  
  for name_to_import, default_value in imports_and_defaults:
      if settings.COUNTRY_APP:
          try:
              globals()[name_to_import] = \
                  getattr(__import__('pombola.' + settings.COUNTRY_APP + '.lib',
                             fromlist=[name_to_import]),
                          name_to_import)
          except (ImportError, AttributeError):
              globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
      else:
          globals()[name_to_import] = default_value
  
subject: Fix the syntax for catching multiple exceptions