Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Brett Cannon wrote: > > Modules/getpath.c seems to be where the C code does it when getting paths for > sys.path. So it would be possible to use that same algorithm to set some sys > attribute (e.g. in_checkout or something) much like sys.gettotalrefcount is > optional and only shown when built with --with-pydebug. Otherwise some > directory structure check could be done (e.g. find importlib/_bootstrap.py > off of sys.path, and then see if ../Modules/Setup or something also exists > that would never show up in an installed CPython).
Why not simply use a flag that get's set based on an environment variable, say PYTHONDEVMODE ? Adding more cruft to getpath.c or similar routines is just going to slow down startup time even more... Python 2.7 has a startup time of 70ms on my machine; compare that to Python 2.1 with 10ms and Perl 5 with just 4ms. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14657> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
