[Python-Dev] inspect.py very slow under 2.5 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 15:06:33 CEST 2006


Ralf Schmitt wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

It looks like the problem is the call to getabspath() in getmodule(). This happens every time, even if the file name is already in the modulesbyfile cache. This calls os.path.abspath() and os.path.normpath() every time that inspect.findsource() is called. That can be fixed by having findsource() pass the filename argument to getmodule(), and adding a check of the modulesbyfile cache before the call to getabspath(). Can you try this patch and see if you get 2.4 level performance back on Fernando's test?: no. this doesn't work. getmodule always iterates over sys.modules.values() and only returns None afterwards. One would have to cache the bad file value, or only inspect new/changed modules from sys.modules.

Good point. I modified the patch so it does the latter (it only calls getabspath() again for a module if the value of module.file changes).

Cheers, Nick.

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