On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> I think this ship has sailed, but it'd be worth looking into lazy >> importing, where 'numpy.fft' isn't actually imported until someone >> starts using it. There are a bunch of libraries that do this, and one >> would have to fiddle to get compatibility with all the different >> python versions and make sure you're not killing performance (might >> have to be in C) but something along the lines of >> >> class _FFTModule(object): >> def __getattribute__(self, name): >> mod = importlib.import_module("numpy.fft") >> _FFTModule.__getattribute__ = mod.__getattribute__ >> return getattr(mod, name) >> fft = _FFTModule() > > Not sure how this would impact projects like ipython that does > tab-completion support, but I know that that would drive me nuts in my basic > tab-completion setup I have for my regular python terminal. Of course, in > the grand scheme of things, that really isn't all that important, I don't > think. We used to do it for scipy. It did interfere with tab completion. It did drive many people nuts. -- Robert Kern _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion