[Python-Dev] 2.3 startup speed? (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fred@zope.com
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:16:05 -0400

Jeremy Hylton writes:

Another obnoxious thing is that site.py imports distutils just for the benefit of people running from a build directory. It would be nice to find a solution for the build directory that didn't not require a bunch of distutils package imports.

Perhaps, but... those imports only happen if it already looks like you're running from a build directory, so they don't impact the imports for an installed Python.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation