On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:26:47 -0400 Ben Hoyt <benh...@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. _______________________________________________ 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