[issue14604] spurious stat() calls in importlib

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[issue14604] spurious stat() calls in importlib

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[issue14604] spurious stat() calls in importlib

Brett Cannon added the comment: OK, so a cursory look at importlib suggests that the possible costs of those stat calls (by looking at what has to examine the filesystem) are: * os.listdir() for caching * os.path.isdir() for directories if they are a package * os.path.isfile() for __init__.py

[issue14604] spurious stat() calls in importlib

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[issue14604] spurious stat() calls in importlib

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : It seems importlib does multiple stat() calls on py files: stat("/home/antoine/cpython/opt/Lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 stat("/home/antoine/cpython/opt/Lib/_sysconfigdata.py", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=16032, ...}) = 0 stat("/h