On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:53:55 -0400 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > importlib.machinery.FileFinder does a stat call to check if a path is a > file if the package check failed. Now I'm willing to bet that the check is > rather redundant as the file extension should be a dead give-away that > something in a directory is a file and not some non-file type. The import > would still fail even if this is the case in the loader when attempting to > read from the file, but it happens a little later and it means finders > would be more permissive in claiming they found a loader.
Is it one stat() call per successful import? Or one stat() call per sys.path entry? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
