At 11:41 AM 12/10/2007 -0500, Jim Jewett wrote: >Is there an example where you would use post-import hooks even though >the system didn't support lazy import? The best I can come up with is >"Don't import module X just for me, but *if* someone else imports it, >then I want to do these things to/with it."
Yes - that's precisely the use case that motivated the current proposal, not to mention the use case that motivated me implementing "weak imports" (as I called them) in the Importing package four years ago or so. >This still sounds like a (kind of) lazy import to me. The "Importing" package implements callbacks as an extension of lazy imports, but it isn't the only way to do it. Christian's patch implements callbacks without lazy importing, although I think it still needs a hook (such as his previously-proposed '__lazy__' attribute) to let it interoperate with lazy-importing systems. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
