On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Travis Oliphant <travis@continuum.io> wrote:
--- systems that try to "freeze" Python programs were particularly annoyed at SciPy's lazy import mechanism.
That's ironic to me -- while the solution to a lot of "freezing" problems is to include everything including the kitchen sink -- I really hate having to do that. With lazy imports, you *may* have to hand-include some stuff (or the while package -- that's actually pretty easy), but without lazy importing you *have* to include everything -- worse, as far as I'm concerned. In fact, bumpy aside, I've occasionally needed a tiny module from scipy for an I"m Im bundling, and I've ended up having to hack away at scipy to pull out what I needed without getting all sorts of stuff I didn't need. So I vote for lazy imports in Scipy too! -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov