Proposal: Inline Import

[Robert Kern]

Bengt Richter wrote:

> Are you willing to type a one-letter prefix to your .re ? E.g.,
> 
>  >>> class I(object):
>  ...     def __getattr__(self, attr):
>  ...         return __import__(attr)

[snip]

> There are special caveats re imports in threads, but otherwise
> I don't know of any significant downsides to importing at various
> points of need in the code. The actual import is only done the first time,
> so it's effectively just a lookup in sys.modules from there on.
> Am I missing something?

Packages.

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