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

Michael McLay mjm42@comcast.net
Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:21:06 -0400

On Sunday 14 April 2002 06:18 pm, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>>>>> "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?

Pmw (Python Megawidgets, http://pmw.sourceforge.net/) has a lazy loader. It is loaded by init.py when the Pmw package is loaded. The loader is in Pmw/Pmw_0_8_5/lib/PmwLoader.py