I'm affraid this step has already been done. I was not being pedantic when I said "locations that don't make sense", I *really* meant it. You would have to see the Filemon log!
Anyway, then is there a way to tell Python not to look for pyd/dll and others in certain locations? In locations were you expect not to have such files for example? Thanks Bernard On 10/19/06, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Thursday 19/10/2006 22:38, Bernard Lebel 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. > > > >This a problem with the application, not Python. But I'm looking for > >ways to minimize this overhead so the users of this application waste > >less time waiting after the startup. > > Try to shorten the PYTHONPATH to the really required directories > (deleting those locations "that don't make sense"). > > > -- > Gabriel Genellina > Softlab SRL > > __________________________________________________ > Correo Yahoo! > Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! > ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
