[Distutils] indexing sys.meta_path hook?

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 00:27:39 CEST 2012


Is the new python 3.3 optimization documented anywhere? I am having trouble
finding it.
On Sep 28, 2012 6:23 PM, "PJ Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Daniel Holth <dholth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone bothered to write a meta path hook that checks all the
> > top_level.txt on a sys.path full of eggs, and uses
> > imp.load_module(name, short list of paths) to find the module instead
> > of the default load_module(name, full sys.path)?
>
> If you're talking about runtime caching, Python 3.3 does something
> similar by default.  For older Pythons, using zipped eggs does
> something similar by default (which is why eggs default to installing
> zipped under easy_install, actually).
>
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