Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-02-04 20:08, Richard Stallman wrote:
>   > > Does Python have autoloads?  I would expect not.
> 
>   > Yes, in two senses:
> 
>   > * Installing a package with 'pip' commonly installs small binaries in 
> your path, so you can call the program from the command line.
>   > * Python has .pth files that work essentially like Emacs autoloads.  
> These aren't used very commonly.
> 
> How do these autoload-like constructs in Python interact with
> the usual need to 'import' a package to make its entry points accessible?

They're the first thing the interpreter runs when it starts.  You can write 
'import foo' on a separate line, and then python imports 'foo' before running 
your actual program.  The code in 'foo' can then introduce new global names by 
modifying the builtins dictionary (this isn't a very common practice)