[Python-ideas] Idea: Lazy import statement

[Andrew Bennetts]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> Problem: You have a package containing a large number of
> classes, of which only a few are typically used by any
> given application.
[...]
>
> So I think it would be good to have a dedicated syntax
> for lazy imports, so the top-level foo package can say
> something like

Yes, this would be good to have.  There's clearly a need; Bazaar and
Mercurial and probably others have invented versions of this.  It would
be excellent to have a standard way to spell it.

-Andrew.