On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:53:47PM -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > Pardon me for intruding, but timings here are entirely the wrong focus > for a Python newcomer. Given that imports are super-optimized (i.e. the > code in the module is only performed once) such a small difference in > timing is inconsequential, I would suggest. > > As long as "from module import *" is only ever used with modules > specifically designed to support it, the other forms can be used as > required. Sure, there is a timing difference between > > import module > ... > module.something() > > and > > from module import something > ... > something() > > but that's hardly the point. Learning to write sound Python is *much* > more important that learning to write fast Python, and often the two > coincide anyway. > > It was true when Kernighan and Plauger wrote it forty years ago and it's > true now: "First, make it work. Then, *if it doesn't work fast enough*, > make it work faster".
You are 100% right of course Steve. I was just trying to answer the specific question "which is faster" question which probably isn't helpful for new Python programmers to focus on. PS I enjoyed your book :-) -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
