Modules with __getattr__ (Re: PEP 317: Eliminate Implicit Exc eption Instantiation)

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> From: Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)
> [mailto:g2h5dqi002 at sneakemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:04 PM
> 
> By the way, the main use case I have for this is
> for implementing autoloading of classes, so that I
> can have a top-level package which apparently contains
> a bunch of classes, but they don't actually get created
> until someone asks for them. A module class with a
> __getattr__ would be ideal for this.
> 
> I can feel a PEP coming on...
>

Maybe it's not necessary; PMW already does something
like this, when you import a megawidget by:

>>> import PMW.xxxx

it searches the modules in the PMW package and imports
the latest version available.

hth.

-gca
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