[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 13 02:40:44 CEST 2005

Michael Chermside wrote:

John, I think what Greg is suggesting is that we include Queue in the threading module, but that we use a Clever Trick(TM) to address Guido's point by not actually loading the Queue code until the first time (if ever) that it is used.

I wasn't actually going so far as to suggest doing this, rather pointing out that, if we had an autoloading mechanism, this would be an obvious use case for it.

I'm not familiar with the clever trick Greg is proposing,

I'll see if I can cook up an example of it to show. Be warned, it is very hackish...

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