Oct. 23, 2008
2:07 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
What's needed is a way of lazily importing them, so that the import won't actually happen unless the imported names are referenced.
I think Christian Heimes started some PEP about this. If I recall correctly, supporting lazy imports was part of PEP 369 (Post Import Hooks), but later removed from the PEP due to time constraints (I think). -- Alexandre