[Python-ideas] Implicit submodule imports

[Greg Ewing]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> They are really really hard
> to do cleanly, and you risk all kinds of breakage in edge-cases (e.g.
> try reload()'ing a module that's been replaced by an object).

One small thing that might help is to allow the
__class__ of a module to be reassigned to a
subclass of the module type. That would allow
a module to be given custom behaviours, while
remaining a real module object so that reload()
etc. continue to work.

-- 
Greg