[maemo-developers] python startup time

[From: Martin Grimme]

Hi,

if you are importing lots of modules, you can get the startup time down by
not importing the modules at the top of a file, but at the place where you
need it in a function.
Note that modules are loaded only once, so subsequent import commands will
have no effect.

Example:
instead of this:

  import os

  def foo():
      print os.listdir()


you can write this:

  def foo():
    import os
    print os.listdir()


Cheers,
Martin


2007/11/9, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us>:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there anything that can be done about python startup time?
> I recently wrote a very simple little pygtk + glade application that is
> less than 110 lines of code and it takes between 5 and 9 seconds to start
> up.
>
> http://www.guardiani.us/projects/tip_calc/browser/trunk/src/tip_calc/tip_calc.py
> Any way to get that startup time down?
>
>
> --
> Jesse Guardiani
> Software Developer / Sys Admin
> jesse at guardiani.us
> _______________________________________________
> maemo-developers mailing list
> maemo-developers at maemo.org
> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/attachments/20071110/104ad55b/attachment.htm