Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote: > (never import > a module in a small function likely to be called in an inner-loop !)
That's good advice, but I would say "in a *time-critical* inner-loop". After the first import, importing a module is fast, it is just a few dictionary lookups (looking up the module in sys.modules) and a dictionary write (to the local namespace). It's only the first import that is potentially expensive. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
