I don't see a place to submit patches.  Is there a patch manager for
numpy?

Here's a patch to defer importing 'tempfile' until needed.  I
previously mentioned one other place that didn't need tempfile.  With
this there is no 'import tempfile' during 'import numpy'

This improves startup by about 7%

--- numpy/lib/_datasource.py    (revision 5576)
+++ numpy/lib/_datasource.py    (working copy)
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"

 import os
-import tempfile
 from shutil import rmtree
 from urlparse import urlparse

@@ -131,6 +130,7 @@
             self._destpath = os.path.abspath(destpath)
             self._istmpdest = False
         else:
+            import tempfile
             self._destpath = tempfile.mkdtemp()
             self._istmpdest = True


                               Andrew
                               dalke@dalkescientific.com


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