Sorry, there is a typo. The code should read as below to repro the problem:
################################ for module in sys.modules.itervalues(): try: path = module.__file__ except (AttributeError, ImportError): return ################################ -- Zachary Burns (407)590-4814 Aim - Zac256FL Production Engineer (Digital Overlord) Zindagi Games On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Zac Burns <zac...@gmail.com> wrote: > The section of code below, which simply gets the __file__ attribute of > the imported modules, takes more than 1/3 of the total startup time. > Given that many modules are complicated and even have dynamic > population this figure seems very high to me. it would seem very high > if one just considered the time it would take to load the pyc files > off the disk vs... whatever happens when module.__file__ happens. > > The calculation appears to be cached though, so a subsequent check > does not take very long. > > From once python starts and loads the main module to after all the > imports occur and this section executes takes 1.3sec. This section > takes 0.5sec. Total module count is ~800. > > Python version is 2.5.1 > > Code: > ################################ > for module in sys.modules: > try: > path = module.__file__ > except (AttributeError, ImportError): > return > ################################ > > > > -- > Zachary Burns > (407)590-4814 > Aim - Zac256FL > Production Engineer (Digital Overlord) > Zindagi Games > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list