[Python-Dev] Startup time

[Jeff Epler]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:02:42PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     Jeremy> Guido and I looked at that briefly.  It doesn't make any
>     Jeremy> difference does it?  The functions that use re are called when
>     Jeremy> the module is imported.
> 
> You're right.  I'll come up with something.

I'd suggested (or I think I suggested) that re needs to only be imported
when message != "" in filterwarnings.  The other use, in _processoptions
-> _setoption, is only hit when sys.warnoptions has a non-empty value.

This still leaves the usage of re in
encodings.__init__.normalize_encoding() which I also suggested moving
into the function --however, I never checked when .normalize_encoding()
is called, so it might always be hit at startup anyway.  This could also
be rewritten as string operations, too.

Jeff