[Bob Kline] > ... > I have made some progress in my debugging of the problem. In fact it > appears that the problem stems from a wide discrepancy in the amount of > time consumed by a call to fopen() on the two machines. A test repro > written in C with loops to repeatedly attempt to open the files that > Python was trying to open while searching for the module files runs in > under 6 seconds on the development machine, and 382 seconds on the > second machine (some of the fopen calls succeed, most fail, as is the > case when Python is doing its search for the modules).
Are you running a virus scanner on this machine? Some interfere enormously with file operations. > ... > The only remotely likely possibility that comes to mind at this point in > the game is something to do with screwed-up ACLs. Whatever it is, it's not Python <wink>. _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activepython