Restricting import file lookup for pyd, dll, ...

[Fredrik Lundh]

Magnus Lycka wrote:

>> That's because I'm using Python through another application, via the
>> pywin32 extensions. When that other application starts, it performs
>> several thousands of file requests (we're talking 4,500, roughly) in
>> the Python installation, locations where there are Python files, and
>> in some other locations that don't make sense. This adds considerable
>> time to the startup time of the application, we're talking between 2
>> and 9 seconds.
> 
> Sounds like a broken (networked?) file system. The only time I've
> had that kind of problems with python startup is when I've had really
> slow anti-virus programs that scanned all the files I opened. But then
> it wasn't file requests that mattered, but actually opening them...
> It still wasn't anywhere near 9 seconds though...

if anyone finds out more about this issue, feel free to add a note to 
this FAQ entry:

http://www.effbot.org/pyfaq/why-does-python-sometimes-take-so-long-to-start.htm

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