requests: Importing requests is fairly slow

We are using requests in our projects, and it is working great. Unfortunately, for our CLI tools, using requests is an issue because it is slow to import. E.g. on my 2014 macbook:

python -c "import requests"

Takes close to 90 ms.

Is optimizing import time worth of consideration for the project ?

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 44 (26 by maintainers)

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Auto merge of #2563 - micbou:import-requests-lazily, r=puremourning [READY] Import the requests module lazily The requests module is slow to import. See https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issu... — committed to ycm-core/YouCompleteMe by homu 7 years ago

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timeit is not informative for imports, you have to create a new process every time because of python import caching.

The main cost is importing urllib3, so I suspect that should be addressed there.

cournape on May 21, 2016