[issue14067] Avoid more stat() calls in importlib

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 18:06, Antoine Pitrou <report at bugs.python.org>wrote:

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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
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> > The patch uses the time module which is not a built-in, so it breaks
> > bootstrapping by directly importing a module, and an extension at
> > that. At best you could switch to a modified _FileFinder after
> > importlib is initially running and able to import extension modules.
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> Yup, as I said it's more of a proof-of-concept.
> (I was actually surprised that time is not a built-in module)

Yeah, I had to double-check myself.

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