Import speed issue

Hello,

When importing Cheetah's template functionality, via:
from Cheetah import Template
there seems to be quite a noticable lag for that import to execute.
It adds considerable wait time to loading my Web applications with Python and
Cheetah.  "import Cheetah" is quick, "from Cheetah import *" is quick, but I
cannot access the Template object.

I have all .pyc and .pyo files that are up to date and I'm using the latest
version of Cheetah and Python. I am stumped as to what's taking the time to
load the module's contents, particularly, the importing of the Template class
as that's all I need.

The time to import seems to be a major factor of the "feel"/response by users
that load the pages generated from my Python applications. I have a few sample
baseline times that can show what I'm working with:

$ time python -c 'from sys import exit'
python -c 'from sys import exit'  0.05s user 0.03s system 102% cpu 0.076 total
$ time python -c 'import Cheetah'
python -c 'import Cheetah'  0.06s user 0.01s system 86% cpu 0.081 total
$ time python -c 'from Cheetah import Template'
python -c 'from Cheetah import Template'  0.58s user 0.05s system 97% cpu 0.647 
total

I understand Cheetah provides a lot of functionality and the execution time
on a more complex application is negligible but shaving any time would be nice.

If anybody could shed some light on speeding this up, I would appreciate it.


Thank you,

Brian


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