Slow startup?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jo Vermeulen wrote:

> This is on a 17 inch Powerbook (1.67 GHz G4), running Mac OS X Panther.

what do

    $ python -c "import sys; print sys.version"

and

    $ python -c "import platform; print platform.platform()"

print?

(iirc, some Mac OS X builds/configs are extremely slow on some operations)

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