Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Andrew Kelly wrote:
> Has anyone had any success in speeding up the mpl imports?
> 
> "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt" 
> ( or "from matplotlib.figure import Figure")
> 
> takes 6 full seconds to load.  That seems excessive.  Any ideas?

Unless you have a very old machine, it sounds like something is wrong.
On my laptop it is about 0.6 seconds. About 20% of that is for numpy.

Are mpl and numpy installed locally on your machine, as opposed to being 
accessed over a samba or nfs mount?

Eric


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> -Andy
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