On 2017-09-10, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

I have something 90% working, only 90% left to go. ;-)

Prototype: https://github.com/warsaw/lazyimport/blob/master/lazy_demo.py https://github.com/nascheme/cpython/tree/exec_mod Next step is to do the compiler and change importlib to do exec(code, module) rather than exec(code, module.__dict__).