[Distutils] short circuiting module lookups

[Jim Fulton]

On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:28 AM, P.J. Eby wrote:

> At 11:54 PM 4/7/2009 +1200, Noah Gift wrote:
>> 1.  In the case of entry points for setuptools, it actually recurses
>> into EVERY egg directory in your path, not just the egg you  
>> requested,
>> adds them to your sys.path and additionally looks for four files
>> inside of every egg.  On a laptop on local storage, this doesn't
>> matter, but when thousands of machines hit the same filer, with many
>> python processes, bad things happen...
>
> Install your eggs with --multi-version, and then only the eggs that  
> are required for the running script will be added to sys.path or  
> have their contents opened.  (Installing them as zip files rather  
> than directories may also speed this up.)


My experience on Linux is that installing eggs as Zip files slows  
imports.

Jim

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation