Greg Ewing wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > I see no need. Code that *doesn't* need Queue but does use threading > > shouldn't have to pay for loading Queue.py. > > However, it does seem awkward to have a whole module > providing just one small class that logically is so > closely related to other threading facilities. > > What we want in this kind of situation is some sort > of autoloading mechanism, so you can import something > from a module and have it trigger the loading of another > module behind the scenes to provide it. >
Bad idea unless it is tied to a namespace. So that users knows where this auto-loaded functionality is coming from. Otherwise it's just as bad as 'from xxx import *'. John M. Camara _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
