Bernard Lebel wrote: > Hi, > > That's because I'm using Python through another application, via the > pywin32 extensions. When that other application starts, it performs > several thousands of file requests (we're talking 4,500, roughly) in > the Python installation, locations where there are Python files, and > in some other locations that don't make sense. This adds considerable > time to the startup time of the application, we're talking between 2 > and 9 seconds.
Sounds like a broken (networked?) file system. The only time I've had that kind of problems with python startup is when I've had really slow anti-virus programs that scanned all the files I opened. But then it wasn't file requests that mattered, but actually opening them... It still wasn't anywhere near 9 seconds though... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
