The docstring at the beginning of the module is still relevant AFAIK: it was about decreasing import times. See http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2009-October/045981.html

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

The _inspect.py function looks like a numpy version of the python inspect function. ISTR that is was a work around for problems with the early python versions, but that would have been back in 2009.

Thoughts?

Chuck

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