Magnus Lycka wrote: >> 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...
if anyone finds out more about this issue, feel free to add a note to this FAQ entry: http://www.effbot.org/pyfaq/why-does-python-sometimes-take-so-long-to-start.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
