Merge pull request #8497 from jaimeMF/lazy-load

Add experimenta lazy loading of info extractors

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/devscripts/lazy_load_template.py b/devscripts/lazy_load_template.py
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+++ b/devscripts/lazy_load_template.py
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+# encoding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+
+class LazyLoadExtractor(object):
+    _module = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def ie_key(cls):
+        return cls.__name__[:-2]
+
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        mod = __import__(cls._module, fromlist=(cls.__name__,))
+        real_cls = getattr(mod, cls.__name__)
+        instance = real_cls.__new__(real_cls)
+        instance.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        return instance