2.3b2: Slow commands (several seconds) under SunOS / Sparc

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 11/18/2010 7:51 AM, Roland Mas wrote:
> Jari Aalto, 2010-11-18 15:35:49 +0200 :
> 
> [...]
> 
>> The use of "." by default seems to contribute to the performance
>> problem. If I only knew why it is using it.
> 
> There's a thread on debian-devel mentioning that a line such as
> "PYTHON_PATH=/foo/bar:$PYTHON_PATH" can end up with a value of
> "/foo/bar:" (with the second component being empty), and that Python
> interprets that as "/foo/bar:." (with a dot instead).  Might be worth
> investigating. 
> 
> Roland.

We've certainly run into variants of that in the past.

Could you let us know what is in $PYTHON_PATH to start with?

John
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