Importing modules takes long time

[Tim Golden]

[ptouchsystems at yahoo.com]
| I am using Python 2.3.4 with Windows 2000. It is a Pentium Xeon
| 2GHz with 1GB of RAM.
| 
| As the title says, importing most modules takes about 2 to 3 seconds.
| Also, starting the interpreter takes 2-3 seconds (I think at 
| the time it 
| tries to import site)

I honestly doubt if this is what you're seeing, but I have
had some (as yet unresolved) difficulties when importing 
modules which rely on externall DLLs across a WAN link. The
link itself was otherwise perfectly acceptable, but
something in the mechanism used to import (whether in Windows
or in Python) slowed down the import to three minutes.

As I say, a bit of a specific situation, but just in case
it helps...

TJG


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