The first time you do a dir() of Form, we have to use Reflection to introspect<br>- every member on Form<br>- every member on ContainerControl<br>- every member on ScrollableControl<br>- every member on Control<br>- every member on Component<br>
(aka the inheritance hierarchy of Form :D )<br><br>After that, the members are all cached and subsequent access should be quite fast.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Michael Foord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk">fuzzyman@voidspace.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Michael Foord wrote:<br>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
On IronPython 2.0.1 the last line of this code takes ~4 seconds the first time it is executed:<br>
<br>
>>> import clr<br>
>>> clr.AddReference('System.Windows.Forms')<br>
>>> from System.Windows.Forms import *<br>
>>> dir(Form)<br>
<br>
Form.__dict__.keys() (which for a .NET type is equivalent) takes ~1 second or less. What extra work is dir doing? (Is it pulling in the xml docstrings?)<br>
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Actually they're not equivalent, my bad:<br>
<br>
>>> len(Form.__dict__)<br>
287<br>
>>> len(dir(Form))<br>
540<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
Michael</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Thanks<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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