[Python-modules-team] Bug#772506: python-requests: importing requests takes ages on Python 2

[David Douard]

Package: python-requests
Version: 2.4.3-4
Severity: important

Hi,

the following results have been executed in docker containers on the same machine, just after having installed python-requests and paython3-requests. The reported results are the third of 3 consecutive runs.

  root at jessie:/# time python -c "import requests"

  real    0m0.720s
  user    0m0.684s
  sys     0m0.032s

  root at jessie:/# time python3 -c "import requests"

  real    0m0.138s
  user    0m0.120s
  sys     0m0.012s
 
  root at wheezy:/# time python -c "import requests"

  real    0m0.060s
  user    0m0.048s
  sys     0m0.008s

  root at wheezy:/# time python3 -c "import requests"

  real    0m0.087s
  user    0m0.064s
  sys     0m0.020s


Thus, as you may see, importing requests on Python2 on jessie is very slow.

This is really painfull since it make any python2 app usig requests very slow to start, 
for example I have a mercurial extension that uses python-requests, 
and in jessie, if I activate it, every hg call takes at least one second.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-requests depends on:
ii  ca-certificates  20141019
ii  python-chardet   2.3.0-1
ii  python-urllib3   1.9.1-3
pn  python:any       <none>

Versions of packages python-requests recommends:
ii  python-ndg-httpsclient  0.3.2-1
ii  python-openssl          0.14-1
ii  python-pyasn1           0.1.7-1

python-requests suggests no packages.

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