extraimport

Utilities to be used at import time

lazyimport

Simple circular dependency resolver - creates a stub object for the module to be imported in the future, so that when the module is used inside for the first time inside a function later, the stub is replaced by the actual module in a seamless way.

Usage:

from extraimport import lazyimport
incomplete = lazyimport()

def myfunc():
    # actual import takes place only when myfunc() is run
    incomplete.member()

ROADMAP

1. Evolve lazyimport to work with packages and more specific syntaxes

2. Port over "MapGetter" from the extradict package to allow using the import statement to retrieve object attributes.