Dec. 29, 2014
11:50 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
I just set up a PYTHONSTARTUP script to pre-import the obvious things and that fixed this problem for me. You'd still have to make a startup script to set up the hook, and it's not like 'import os, sys' will appreciably affect startup time.
Maybe those two won't, but I work with a number of Python students who are using heavier libraries like psycopg2 and numpy, so I'd really rather not auto-import those into everything. On the other hand, the course is currently written for Python 2.7, so I can't actually make use of this there... yet. Another reason to nudge the course writers about updating to 3.x! ChrisA