Re: [Python-Dev] implementation of copy standard lib

2005-08-16 Thread Simon Brunning
On 8/14/05, Martijn Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that this lib is implemented in python, not in C. As I can > imagine that *a lot* of libs/scripts use the copy library, I think it > worthwhile to implement this lib in C. > Unfortunately I cannot do this myself: I am relatively ine

[Python-Dev] implementation of copy standard lib

2005-08-16 Thread Martijn Brouwer
Hi, After profiling a small python script I found that approximately 50% of the runtime of my script was consumed by one line: "import copy". Another 15% was the startup of the interpreter, but that is OK for an interpreted language. The copy library is used by another library I am using for my scr