Quentin Crain wrote: > I am being told by my systems people that the load on > the NFS servers is nasty. Our python installs are up > on NFS. Also, on a bureaucratic note, I have very > little input/control into the python builds (sigh). > > I have found the following (linux): > > strace -f -F python2.2.2 -c 'pass' |& fgrep '(No such > file or directory)' | wc -l > ===> 57 > > strace -f -F python2.4 -c 'pass' |& fgrep '(No such > file or directory)' | wc -l > ===> 161 > > Whoa!! After looking at what is being stat'd or > open'd, it looks like 'encodings' is new in 2.4 and, > even "worse", everything is looked for as a zip first.
so why not build that ZIP? ask your administrators to do this: $ su # cd /usr/local/lib/python2.4 # zip -0 python24.zip *.pyc */*.pyc */*/*.pyc # mv python24.zip .. # ^D and see if that helps (tweak the paths as necessary) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list