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On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:41:49 -0500, Dave Angel <d@davea.name> wrote:


>
>I can't speak for django or django-celery.  There are people that 
>disagree on this, and there are some reasons to override the ones I 
>mentioned.  One would be large modules that are not used in most 
>circumstances, or not used till the program has run for a while.
>
	Especially if the modules are OS-dependent... 
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