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What does this PR do?

Depending on precise install conditions, mpi4py may be installed without MPI being present, which can cause an ImportError. ("cannot import name 'MPI' from 'mpi4py'").

Catch that case in the detect() function of the MPI plugin, and treat it as if mpi4py is not installed.

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📚 Documentation preview 📚: https://pytorch-lightning--21353.org.readthedocs.build/en/21353/

Depending on precise install, mpi4py may be installed without `MPI` being present. Catch that case in the detect() function, and treat it as if mpi4py is not installed.
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