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A fast and thorough lazy object proxy.

• Free software: BSD license

Note that this is based on wrapt's ObjectProxy with one big change: it calls a function the first time the proxy object is used, while wrapt.ObjectProxy just forwards the method calls to the target object.

In other words, you use lazy-object-proxy when you only have the object way later and you use wrapt.ObjectProxy when you want to override few methods (by subclassing) and forward everything else to the target object.

Example:

def expensive_func():
    # create expensive object
    return stuff

obj = lazy_object_proxy.Proxy(expensive_func)
# function is called only when object is actually used
print(obj.foobar)  # now expensive_func is called

pip install lazy-object-proxy

https://python-lazy-object-proxy.readthedocs.io/

To run the all tests run:

tox

This project is based on some code from wrapt as you can see in the git history.