On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> wrote: > This isn't a new bug, but it's exposed by always importing weakref and > atexit during interpreter startup. I'm wondering if that's really necessary > :)
Importing it during startup isn't necessary per se; imports needed only by the generic function implementation can and should be imported late, rather than at the time functools is imported. However, if pkgutil was/is migrated to using this implementation of generics, then it's likely going to end up imported during startup anyway, because at least the -m startup path involves pkgutil. In short, the overall answer right now is, "maybe", and the answer later is "rather likely". ;-) _______________________________________________ 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
