[Python-Dev] More optimisation ideas

[Brett Cannon]

A lazy importer was added in Python 3.5 and it was not possible without the
module spec refactoring.

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, 08:57 Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> If you want to make startup time faster for a broad range of applications,
> please consider adding a lazy import facility in the stdlib.
> I recently tried to write a lazy import mechanism using import hooks
> (to make it portable from 2.6 to 3.5), it seems nearly impossible to do
> so (or, at least, for an average Python programmer like me).
>
> This would be much more useful (for actual users, not for architecture
> astronauts) than refactoring the importlib APIs in each feature version...
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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