Many Pythons

Little poll on how people are using Python here:

• max: python 2.7 from /hive/groups/gencode/local/bin, no additional libraries
• daniel: 2.6 from in ~dzerbino
• glenn: not using the cluster yet
• ben: /hive/users/benedict, 2.6, librarires?
• venkat: /hive/groups/encode/python (what the hell is this jim-kent-kit in there?)
• mark: /hive/groups/{gencode,recon}/local,
• galt: ?
• jeff: /hive/groups/cancerGB/paradigm/opt/bin

Python and open() calls

• whenever you load a library , python will try to load .so, .py, .pyc and other files, there is no way to avoid this
• On startup, python will load a handful of libraries, e.g. unicode, parsers, codecs, streams, etc