[Python-Dev] Python startup time (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jul 19 16:35:16 EDT 2017

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:26:47 -0400 Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, agreed that startup time matters for scripting. I was talking to someone on the Google Cloud SDK (CLI) team recently, and they said startup time is a big deal for them ... it's especially problematic for shell tab completion helpers, because every time you press tab the shell has to load your Python program to do the completion.

And also, for the same reason, for shell prompt additions such as git-prompt. Mercurial had to write a C client (chg) to make this usable.

Regards

Antoine.

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