Add experimental support for lazy loading the info extractors

[youtube-dl] / devscripts / lazy_load_template.py

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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+# flake8: noqa
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+
+class LazyLoadExtractor(object):
+    _module = None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def ie_key(cls):
+        return cls.__name__[:-2]
+
+    def __new__(cls):
+        mod = __import__(cls._module, fromlist=(cls.__name__,))
+        real_cls = getattr(mod, cls.__name__)
+        return real_cls.__new__(real_cls)