On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:50:01 +0100, Joep van Delft wrote: > Hi there, > > > I am puzzled at how I borked my installation. Python loads slow on my > machine, and I decided to use strace and /usr/bin/time to see what is > actually happening.
Before dropping down to such a low level, I suggest you start at a higher, Python level. Run `python -E` to disable any environment variables and startup file. Does that help? Compare sys.path when running with and without the -E switch. Any important differences? Anything unusual in sys.path, such as directories that don't exist? Run `python -v` to print modules as they are loaded. (Warning: there are a lot of them.) Can you see any obvious delays? [...] > What puzzles me, is the amount of errors for open and stat64. There are > references to stuff I don't know (~/GNUStep directory? Stuff under > site-packages that does not exist? Subdirs of site-packages that are not > included in sys.path?) What is python doing there, and why? And, more > importantly, how can this be corrected? What's the value of the environment variable PYTHONPATH? Do you have a PYTHONSTARTUP set? What is in that file? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
