[Python-Dev] requirements for moving __import__ over to importlib?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:00:04 -0500
PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> 
> > For those of you not watching -ideas, or ignoring the "Python TIOBE
> > -3%" discussion, this would seem to be relevant to any discussion of
> > reworking the import mechanism:
> >
> > http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2012-January/059801.html
> >
> > Interesting.  This gives me an idea for a way to cut stat calls per
> sys.path entry per import by roughly 4x, at the cost of a one-time
> directory read per sys.path entry.

Why do you even think this is a problem with "stat calls"?