Do more imported objects affect performance

[Taskinoor Hasan]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Filip Gruszczyński <gruszczy at gmail.com>wrote:

> I see. Thanks for a really good explanation, I like to know, how to do
> things in the proper way :)


I always prefer to use import module and then use module.function. The
reason is simple. It makes the code more readable and maintainable.


>
>
> 2008/12/1 Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com>:
> > Rafe <rafesacks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  On Dec 1, 7:26?am, "Filip Gruszczy?ski" <grusz... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I have following question: if I use
> >> >
> >> > from module import *
> >> >
> >> > instead
> >> >
> >> > from module import Class
> >> >
> >> > am I affecting performance of my program? I believe, that all those
> >> > names must be stored somewhere, when they are imported and then
> >> > browsed when one of them is called. So am I putting a lot of "garbage"
> >> > to this storage and make those searches longer?
> >>
> >>  Why use it if you don't need it? Your post implies a choice and the
> >>  '*' import can really make things muddy if it isn't actually necessary
> >>  (rare). Why not just import the module and use what you need? It is
> >>  way easier to read/debug and maintains the name-space.
> >
> > Importing the module is actualy slower...  If you import the name into
> > your namespace then there is only one lookup to do.  If you import the
> > module there are two.
> >
> > $ python -m timeit -s 'from timeit import Timer' 'Timer'
> > 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0784 usec per loop
> >
> > $ python -m timeit -s 'import timeit' 'timeit.Timer'
> > 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.243 usec per loop
> >
> > I'm not suggestion you should ever use "from module import *" only
> > ever import the things you actually need, eg
> > "from module import MyClass, my_function"
> >
> > And here is the test again, actually calling something with the same
> > difference in execution speed :-
> >
> > $ python -m timeit -s 'from os import nice' 'nice(0)'
> > 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.21 usec per loop
> >
> > $ python -m timeit -s 'import os' 'os.nice(0)'
> > 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.48 usec per loop
> >
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