[SciPy-user] MATLAB start-up

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "PP" == Pearu Peterson <pearu at cens.ioc.ee> writes:

    PP> Idea: if scipy would install modules like special, linalg,
    PP> fftpack etc as scipy_special, scipy_linalg, scipy_fftpack
    PP> (that are standalone modules that also scipy imports) then
    PP> e.g.  from scipy_special import k0 would be very fast. This
    PP> approach would float site-packages directory with packages
    PP> scipy_* (there are, say, 10 of such packages) but I think it
    PP> is worth of considering.  What do you think?

If you are going to look at lazy importing you might want to check out
the Python mega widgets.  It does some kind of lazy importing.  I
havent looked at it closely enough to know what it does but perhaps it
would be useful to look at it.

cheers,
prabhu