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Subject: Re: Improvement to python module list generation used for command completion
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2015/07/25 12:37, Antony Lee <antony.lee@berkeley.edu> wrote:
> so replacing
> 
>   local script='import sys, pydoc
> def f(p,m,d):
>   if m.find(".") < 0: sys.stdout.write(m+"\n")
> pydoc.ModuleScanner().run(f)'
> 
> by
> 
>   local script='import pkgutil
> for importer, name, ispkg in pkgutil.iter_modules(): print(name)'
> 
> in _python_modules yields a big improvement in speed.

Thanks. It is indeed *much* faster.

Do you think using 'print(name)' is sufficiently portable?
It seems it works with Python 2.x, because it is interpreted
as a print statement with a single-element tuple '(name)'.