On 26/10/2013 13:20, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:21:56PM +0000, Dave Angel wrote:
If you
want a surprise, try the following simple program some time.
import sys
print(sys.modules)
when I tried that interactively on 2.7, it printed some 240+ names.
Wow. What were you doing? Ah, I bet you had imported numpy or similar!
numpy brings in a lot.
This reminded me that work has been done to reduce the number of imports
at startup, see http://bugs.python.org/issue19205 and
http://bugs.python.org/issue19325
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