"And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man... and the Dude was certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide."
Lebowski is a simple framework for globally enabling lazy imports in Python. This framework has the following advantages over others that exist:
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You don't have to specify every library that you want lazyily imported.
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It is fully compatible with libraries that swap out modules in sys.modules (unlike Python's native LazyLoader).
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Import errors are NOT delayed to the first use of the library. Existance of the library is checked at the time of declaration of the import.
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It has an extremely simple interface.
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Any issues found should be reported as GitHub issues on this repository.
The use of the lebowski library is simple. Just follow the following code snippet:
import lebowski
lebowski.enable()
import pandas
import sklearn
# etc...
lebowski.disable() # If desired