On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 2:29 AM Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > def fun(): > # Imports are not allowed at run-time > import mod2 > # But you can re-import module previously imported at import-time. > import mod
Wait, what? No. No no no. Please do not do ANYTHING like this. Having suffered under JavaScript's highly restrictive import system (and actually been glad for it, since the alternative is far worse), I do not want ANY version of Python to give up the full power of its import system, including the ability for a module to be imported only when it's actually needed. Imports inside functions allow a program to have optional dependencies, or dependencies that might be slow to load (eg numpy), and without that, even running your script with "--help" has to process every single import in the entire file. -1000. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/EP24L35CMMDBBYAFVPAP2T4FJNHFRG4T/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
