Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: In general I agree with Raymond's principle and I am not very happy doing these changes. But heavy startup is a sore spot of CPython.
For comparison Python 2.7 and optparse: $ python -c 'import sys; s = set(sys.modules); import argparse; print(len(s), len(sys.modules), len(set(sys.modules) - s))' (43, 63, 20) $ python -S -c 'import sys; s = set(sys.modules); import argparse; print(len(s), len(sys.modules), len(set(sys.modules) - s))' (15, 57, 42) $ python -c 'import sys; s = set(sys.modules); import optparse; print(len(s), len(sys.modules), len(set(sys.modules) - s))' (43, 56, 13) $ python -S -c 'import sys; s = set(sys.modules); import optparse; print(len(s), len(sys.modules), len(set(sys.modules) - s))' (15, 50, 35) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30152> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
