Hello the group, I am wondering why doctests run slower the first time. In the transcript below "try" is a script which finds and runs doctests in the current directory. It also shows how long it takes to run these tests.
I added a new test which searches recursively for files given a path, and it took (approx) 3 seconds to run. But all subsequent runs take less than half a second. Am I right in thinking that the extra time on the first run is the time it takes to compile .py -> .pyc ? Transcript follows $ try paths.test try ./paths.test; 10 tests passed in 3 seconds 10 tests passed, 0 failed, in 3 seconds $ try paths.test try ./paths.test; 10 tests passed very quickly 10 tests passed, 0 failed, in 0 seconds $ try paths.test try ./paths.test; 10 tests passed very quickly 10 tests passed, 0 failed, in 0 seconds -- Alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
