Bug#526080: please don't call X methods on import

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> [2009.04.29.1049 +0200]:
> Why? Does this cause any problems? This is not so uncommon
> practice in Python modules.

It prints warnings and possibly errors for tools that don't even
need X, like jp_*_lookup in the jpilot package, or reportbug. Those
need to import python-gtk2 (or modules importing python-gtk2) for
various reasons, and if only because it's common practice to
unconditionally include modules in Python.

It also causes performance degradation. If I don't use X, why should
I need to "pay" for initialisation of X methods?

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