Hey all, I noticed that loading skimage seemed to take a bit longer than I'd like, so I profiled it.&nbsp; On my machine, it takes 1.6 seconds to import skimage, 0.4 of which was from numpy, and 1.2 of which was from loading nose in skimage/__init__.py.&nbsp; This simple patch brings my import time down to ~0.4 seconds, since it only imports nose when the test function is called.<br><br>diff --git a/skimage/__init__.py b/skimage/__init__.py<br>index 1ac121b..f3e5e88 100644<br>--- a/skimage/__init__.py<br>+++ b/skimage/__init__.py<br>@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ def _setup_test(verbose=False):<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return f<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>-test = _setup_test()<br>-test_verbose = _setup_test(verbose=True)<br>+test = lambda : _setup_test()()<br>+test_verbose = lambda : _setup_test(verbose=True)()<br>+test_verbose.__doc__ = test.__doc__ = 'Invoke the skimage test suite.'<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;def get_log(name=None):<br><br>