[Python-Dev] Timing breakdown of Py_InitializeEx_Private()

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 22:33:49 +0200
Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
> On 16/04/14 16:35, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:39:34 +0200
> > Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think in cases like hg command line scripts there is no need
> >> to import site just for hg scripts.
> > 
> > If you don't import site you won't be able to import Mercurial in most
> > cases.
> 
> 
> Oh is that so?
> I thought about hg as a set of command-line scripts with a defined
> interface that should IMO not be dependent from any site-specific
> settings.

Well perhaps you should take a look. Mercurial is actually a package
(in the Python sense) named "mercurial" with a bunch of modules inside
it. When it gets installed, it's typically installed into
site-packages, which means site.py is necessary for the install
location to crop up into sys.path.

Regards

Antoine.