how to optimize zipimport

[Coonay.appspot]

On Apr 2, 6:26 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Mar 30, 11:39 pm, Coonay <fla... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 26, 1:38 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
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> > > On Mar 26, 2:06 pm, Coonay <fla... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Mar 26, 10:41 am, Coonay <fla... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > in my mudule ,i import another mudule from a zip ,
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> > > > > when i call  my mudle method,the module in the zip will be import from
> > > > > the zip every time,that slow down the operation,
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> > > > > i try to search the some workarodnd or solution but i don't get one,
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> > i don't use zipimport directly,just like u said i put the zip in the
> > sys.path
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> > i found the the module in the zip reloaded  everytime the code is
> > called,i mean, say ,first time it take me 1 second to call a method in
> > the zip,but it take another 1 second to call the mothod for another
> > time ,and so on
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> How do you know that it is being reloaded each time a methos is
> called?
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> > > Note: it may help when you reply to show a stripped-down version of
> > > your calling module, sufficient to back up your description of what is
> > > happening.
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> We can only guess if you don't show us what is actually happening.
> Vague descriptions are not very useful. Show us how exactly you are
> importing the modules, how you are calling methods, with timing
> calls ...

yes , i put the pyc file with py source file in the zip
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> By the way, have you read this part of the documentation:
> "Note that if an archive only contains .py files, Python will not
> attempt to modify the archive by adding the corresponding .pyc or .pyo
> file, meaning that if a ZIP archive doesn't contain .pyc files,
> importing may be rather slow."
> ?
>
> Do you have .pyc files in your ZIP file? If not that would make the
> first import slower than it should be.
>
> However second, third, ... imports (if you do any) should be
> instantaneous -- unless you are messing about deleting modules from
> sys.modules.
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> And *method* calls should be instantaneous.



it run much faster when i unzip the lib and put then in a directory

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> Does your app run at the same speed when you have all the modules in a
> directory instead of inside a zip file?
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> Apart from code executed once at app start to inject the path to the
> zip file into sys.path, have you made any other changes to accommodate
> using import from zip? If so, what changes?
>
> Have you tried running your app from the shell (Windows translation:
> in a Command Prompt window) like this:
>
> python -v app_start.py
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> This will show you all the imports as they happen.
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> HTH ... but a clear description from you (plus code samples) of
> exactly what you are doing woul dhelp a whole lot more.
>
> John