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

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 15:28, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 21:24, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> > Identifying the use cases are important here.  For example, even if it
> were a
> > lot slower, Mailman wouldn't care (*I* might care because it takes
> longer to
> > run my test, but my users wouldn't).  But Bazaar or Mercurial users
> would care
> > a lot.
>
> Yeah, startup performance getting worse kinda sucks for command-line
> apps. And IIRC it's been getting worse over the past few releases...
>
> Anyway, I think there was enough of a python3 port for Mercurial (from
> various GSoC students) that you can probably run some of the very
> simple commands (like hg parents or hg id), which should be enough for
> your purposes, right?
>

Possibly. Where is the code?
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