Re: Lazy Imports -- I Like This Idea

Paul Rubin <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:21:55 -0700
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> writes:
> That same script imports bs4, as it happens. It still manages an
> overall startup time of just a quarter second.

Importing bs4 can take a few hundred msec on the cheap VPS that I use it
on.  So deferring it speeds the program startup by that much.