[New-bugs-announce] [issue19218] Use of MutableMapping in os module slows down interpreter startup

[Eric Snow]

New submission from Eric Snow:

There has been some discussion on python-dev about improving interpreter startup time.  Christian Heimes brought up how the os module imports collections (so _Environ can inherit from it) [1], and mentioned a couple of solutions [2].

[1]https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129312.html
[2]https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129367.html

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 199402
nosy: christian.heimes, eric.snow
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Use of MutableMapping in os module slows down interpreter startup
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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