I've written some class which allows me to derive from it to make objects lazy instantiated. Do you see notational improvements or maybe even cases where this method might not work (multiple inheritance etc.)? What else could I try? Here is the code class LazyProxy(object): def __init__(self, cls, *params, **kwargs): self.__dict__["_cls"]=cls self.__dict__["_params"]=params self.__dict__["_kwargs"]=kwargs self.__dict__["_obj"]=None def __getattr__(self, name): if self.__dict__["_obj"] is None: self.__init_obj() return getattr(self.__dict__["_obj"], name) def __setattr__(self, name, value): if self.__dict__["_obj"] is None: self.__init_obj() setattr(self.__dict__["_obj"], name, value) def __init_obj(self): self.__dict__["_obj"]=object.__new__(self.__dict__["_cls"], *self.__dict__["_params"], **self.__dict__["_kwargs"]) self.__dict__["_obj"].__init__(*self.__dict__["_params"], **self.__dict__["_kwargs"]) class LazyInit(object): def __new__(cls, *params, **kwargs): return LazyProxy(cls, *params, **kwargs) class A(LazyInit): # classes meant to be lazy loaded are derived from LazyInit def __init__(self, x): print("Init A") self.x=14+x a=A(1) print("Go") print("15=", a.x)