Autoloader (was Re: CSV Error)

[Skip Montanaro]

> We were discussing something along these lines a while ago, and I
> never saw anything truly satisfactory - there's no easy way to handle
> a missing name by returning a value (comparably to __getattr__), you
> have to catch it and then try to re-execute the failing code, which
> isn't perfect. How does yours work? Or was it one of the ones that was
> mentioned last time?

Just like that. I've attached a copy. As you said, I'm sure it's not
perfect, but it's handy in precisely those interactive interpreter
cases when *dope slap* you forgot to import a standard module before
launching into a block of code.

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