[PEAK] Exceptions in lazy imported module not reported

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:16 AM 12/24/2006 -0800, Vinj Vinj wrote:
> > Also, you probably want sys.meta_path.insert(0,
> > LazyImporter(...)) instead
> > of append, so that the lazy importer takes
>
>Do I still need this if I'm using map(lazyModule
>....)?

No.


>Is there any downside (besides the exception not being
>caught) of using lazyModule? I'm using it quite
>extensively all over my application.

Tools that expect sys.modules to contain only module objects or 'None' may 
do odd things with unused lazy modules.  For example, they may force them 
to be imported.