speeding up the import time

[shimwell]

importing paramak on the laptop over 1.6 seconds and I was wondering if this can be decreased.

python 3.7 upwards has a inbuild profiler

python3.7 -X importtime -c "import paramak" 2> import.log

and packages like tuna can display the times

pip install tuna
tuna import.log

I am wondering if a few import statements can be refactored

e.g

instead of import numpy we could only import the parts used from numpy import linespace

this might save a little time as suggested here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38768129/how-to-reduce-the-time-of-python-import-modules