[Python-Dev] PEP: Lazy module imports and post import hook

[Andrew Bennetts]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Christian Heimes wrote:
> 
> > I've attached the first public draft of my first PEP. A working patch
> > against the py3k branch is available at http://bugs.python.org/issue1576
> > 
> > Christian
> 
> Note also that mercurial has demandimport
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

And that bzr has lazy_import (inspired by mercurial's demandimport):
http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/annotate/3170?file_id=lazy_import.py-20060910203832-f77c54gf3n232za0-1
http://bazaar-vcs.org/

-Andrew.