[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:40:43 +0200

From: Barry A. Warsaw <barry@zope.com>

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes: GvR> To the contrary. Only problem is how to prevent loading all GvR> of optik when one imports getopt.getopt (and getopt.error). Too bad modules can't have getattr's :) Seriously, I wonder if it's time to write (or adopt) a general autoloading facility for Python?

Seriously, what do you mean by that? I imagine ugly things .

Btw, Jython (as you might now) has deep-auto-importing, that means

import pkg1.pkg2

pkg1.pkg2.f()

in Jython can be written as:

import pkg1

pkg1.pkg2.f()

(yes you should still import the first-level package), this was intended for Java imports but then extended to python packages too for symmetry. OTOH is a great way to write non-portable (to CPython) jython code .

regards.