[Python-3000] Interest in PEP for callbacks on module import

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Moore wrote:
> On 10/12/2007, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>"Don't import module X just for me, but *if* someone else imports it,
>>then I want to do these things to/with it."
> 
> That sounds to me exactly like the registration use case Christian mentioned:
> 
> Register decimal.Decimal as a "ABC.Number" type - but don't import
> decimal just so that I can do this,

I think the point is that you could just as well
achieve this by lazily importing decimal with a
callback.

--
Greg