On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:59:43AM -0500, Stéfan van der Walt wrote:
2008/8/15 Robert Kern robert.kern@gmail.com:
The devil is in the details. What exactly do you propose? When we discussed this last time, the participants more or less agreed that environment variables could cause more fragility than they're worth. It also breaks the first time you try to import a numpy-using library that was not written with this in mind. Basically, you're stuck with only code that you've written.
First, I propose that I write some code. Second, I do not suggest the behaviour above, but:
- Expose a new interface to numpy, called numpy.api
- If a certain environment variable is set, the numpy namespace is
not populated, and numpy.api becomes instantaneous to load.
That doesn't work because of a "feature" in Python's import: when loading foo.bar, Python loads foo.__init__ first. This is why we have "api" modules all over ETS.
Gaël