[Python-Dev] Fixing #7175: a standard location for Python config files

[Fred Drake]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:21 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the specific issue is here, but adding entries to
> sys.path makes startup time *significantly* slower.
>
> I happen to use easy_install since Windows doesn't have its own package
> manager. Unfortunately the default of creating a new directory and
> adding it to easy_install.pth is actually pretty terrible.

Adding sys.path entries on Linux isn't free either.

Fortunately, this isn't about adding anything to sys.path.


  -Fred

--
Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at gmail.com>
"A storm broke loose in my mind."  --Albert Einstein