On Mon, Oct 2, 2017, 13:56 Antoine Pitrou, <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Oct 2017 18:56:15 +0000
> Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> >
> > So Mercurial specifically is an odd duck because they already do lazy
> > importing (in fact they are using the lazy loading support from
> importlib).
>
> Do they?  I was under the impression they had their own home-baked,
> GPL-licensed, lazy-loading __import__ re-implementation.
>
> At least they used to, perhaps they switched to something else
> (probably still GPL-licensed, though).
>

Their Python 3 port wraps the stdlib code in their old API (they showed me
the code at PyCon US). So the GPL bit is for API adapting.

-Brett


> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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