On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:19:59 -0500 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 13:43, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > > Again, the goal is fast startup of command-line tools that only use a > > small subset of the overall framework; doing disk access for lazy imports > > goes against that goal. > > > Depends if you consider stat calls the overhead vs. the actual disk > read/write to load the data. Anyway, this is going to lead down to a > discussion/argument over design parameters which I'm not up to having since > I'm not actively working on a lazy loader for the stdlib right now.
For those of you not watching -ideas, or ignoring the "Python TIOBE -3%" discussion, this would seem to be relevant to any discussion of reworking the import mechanism: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-January/059801.html <mike -- Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ 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
