apitools/base/py/__init__.py imports everything from all of its submodules. This makes it easier to import things in the submodules, as you don't have to worry about which submodule its in, but it comes at the price of significant overhead when importing anything from any of the submodules, as all of the submodules (and everything they import) have to be imported too. On my machine, this takes about 160ms. These imports should be removed as wildcard imports in an __init__.py file are generally bad practice and have specific consequences in this case.
apitools/base/py/__init__.pyimports everything from all of its submodules. This makes it easier to import things in the submodules, as you don't have to worry about which submodule its in, but it comes at the price of significant overhead when importing anything from any of the submodules, as all of the submodules (and everything they import) have to be imported too. On my machine, this takes about 160ms. These imports should be removed as wildcard imports in an__init__.pyfile are generally bad practice and have specific consequences in this case.