I don’t want to be a “broken record” and I don’t want to derail discussion of the PEP (I think it looks quite nice). However, I still wonder if my modules as global namespace idea could help here. I think it is a problem that we are trying to do too much with dict. If LOAD_GLOBAL can do __getattr__ on the module, rather than __getitem__ on module.__dict__, it gives us a place to hook in this lazy loading behavior without affecting every dict object in the system. The lookdict_unicode_lazy hack is clever but not exactly elegant.
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