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Author barry
Recipients Anthony Sottile, Chris Billington, Ivan.Pozdeev, Peter L3, SilentGhost, __Vano, barry, brett.cannon, cheryl.sabella, christian.heimes, eric.smith, eric.snow, ethan smith, ionelmc, jaraco, mhammond, ncoghlan, pitrou, steve.dower, takluyver, terry.reedy, veky
Date 2019-03-07.18:50:51
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On Mar 7, 2019, at 10:46, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> 
> There's a simple `if 'COVSOMETHING' in os.environ` check to activate it.
> That can't cost a significant amount of time. This is rather another bad
> actor argument.

You’re overlooking the significant cost of loading the module that does the check in the first place.
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