Re: [Matplotlib-users] speed up imports?

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> -Andy
>
> Andy,
>
> A couple replies came back directly to me (probably intended for the
> list, though), and both reported results similar to yours, on Windows
> machines only.  What OS and version are you running?

Sorry Eric, that was indeed intended for the list.  Just for the
list's sake, I'll repeat it:

It takes longer than any other Python module for me, too, about 5-6
seconds on a "cold" load (on Windows), though faster on a "warm" load.
 I am running it locally on a laptop that is 1.7 GHz Intel Pentium
laptop with 1Meg RAM.

And I should add:  I don't currently have Linux installed, but will
soon again I hope, and I will take note of how long it takes on Linux.

Thanks,
Che