On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Eric Firing<efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:

> Ideally, all the docstring manipulations would be done once at the time of
> installation or of compilation to .pyc, not at every mpl startup.  I think
> that doing it at compilation time is impossible, given python's fundamental
> design, so that leaves the installation time alternative.  I don't have any
> more specific ideas at this point, though.  If it turns out that the
> decorators don't add significantly to the startup time, then the question of
> alternatives is moot.

While this is not impossible, it would make my building of the docs
more complicated, because there I rely on the runtime "hardcopy" rc
property to format rest docstrings.  I could do a special installation
for doc building if it makes everyone else in the world's mpl loads
100x faster :-)

JDH

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