[Python-Dev] Making submodules available when importing top one (original) (raw)

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Wed Oct 16 18:41:11 CEST 2013

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:26:11PM -0300, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

(all this using Python 3.4.0a3+)

In the stdlib, I see that (as an example): >>> import os >>> os.path.abspath <function abspath at 0xb7123734> >>> os.path <module 'posixpath' from '/.../python/trunk/Lib/posixpath.py'>

However, for other (newer) modules: >>> import urllib >>> urllib.requests.urlopen Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'requests' >>> import concurrent >>> concurrent.futures Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'futures' So, is there a reason to not expose the submodules in the top module? This should be fixed?

I don't think it should be fixed. To expose submodules automatically top-level modules have to import them. In case one only needs a couple of submodules (and without lazy import) importing all of them would be a waste of time and memory. Module os.path is a special kind of module. On import os imports a platform-dependent module (posixpath, ntpath) and exposes it as os.path.

Oleg.

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