[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Oct 13 20:40:28 CEST 2005


> unfortunately, this standard seem to result in generic "spamtools" modules
> into which people throw everything that's even remotely related to "spam",
> followed by complaints about bloat and performance from users, followed by
> various more or less stupid attempts to implement lazy loading of hidden in-
> ternal modules, followed by more complaints from users who no longer has
> a clear view of what's really going on in there...

BTW, what's the performance problem in importing unnecessary stuff
(assuming pyc files are already generated) ?
Has it been evaluated somewhere ?




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