[Python-Dev] Zipping Zope3

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 23:18:20 +0100


Wiktor Sadowski wrote:

> >I can see that keeping the file object open could speed things up,
> >but is it a polite & decent thing to do?
> 
> Yes, but it would be nice to not fopen/fclose for each
> __importer__.get_data.

It also does this for each import (I copied this behavior from the PEP
273 implementation). I experimented with keeping the open file object
around, and performance hardly went up.

Just

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