On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > Hans Mulder wrote: > >> Errrhm, no. He is not deleting the PyQt4 module from sys.modules; >> he's only deleting the name QtGui from his own namespace. Next >> time Python comes across >> >> from PyQt4 import QtGui >> >> , it finds that the module PyQt4 already exists in sys.modules, so >> Python does not have to load the module again. All it has to do is >> bind name QtGui in the importing module to the class with the same >> name in the PyQt4 module. That does not take many cycles. > > I recently discovered that when IDLE restarts (as when one runs a file from > an edit window), it clears the global namespace but does not clear > sys.modules. Hence re-running a script that does time-consuming imports is > much faster, as only the global name binding is done after the first run.
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