On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:53, Gael Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:18:48AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: >> > What does python -c "import sys; print sys.path" say ? > >> A lot! 41 entries, and lot's of eggs -- are eggs an issue? I'm also >> wondering how the order is determined -- if it looked in site-packages >> first, it would find numpy a whole lot faster. > > AFAIK this is a setuptools issue. From what I hear, it might be fixed in > the svn version of setuptools, but they still have to make a release that > has this feature. > > The two issues I can see are: import path priority, it should be screwed > up like it is, and speed. Speed is obviously a hard problem. > >> I suspect the thing to do is to re-install from scratch, and only add in >> packages I'm really using now. > > Avoid eggs if you can. This has been my policy. I am not sure how much > this is just superstition or a real problem, though.
Superstition. [~]$ python -c "import sys; print len(sys.path)" 269 [~]$ python -v -v -c "import numpy" 2> foo.txt [~]$ wc -l foo.txt 42500 foo.txt [~]$ time python -c "import numpy" python -c "import numpy" 0.18s user 0.46s system 88% cpu 0.716 total So cut it out. Chris, please profile your import so we actually have some real information to work with instead of prejudices. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
