From 2304774465f3faddd8102d729ae6d3ca7e9cff49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hollas <daniel.hollas@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 15:44:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-118761: Speedup pathlib import by deferring shutil
 (#123520)

Co-authored-by: blurb-it[bot] <43283697+blurb-it[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Lib/pathlib/_local.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pathlib/_local.py b/Lib/pathlib/_local.py
index 674c98e1b3050e..51abe58410bc7c 100644
--- a/Lib/pathlib/_local.py
+++ b/Lib/pathlib/_local.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 import operator
 import os
 import posixpath
-import shutil
 import sys
 from glob import _StringGlobber
 from itertools import chain
@@ -824,7 +823,10 @@ def rmdir(self):
         """
         os.rmdir(self)
 
-    _rmtree = shutil.rmtree
+    def _rmtree(self):
+        # Lazy import to improve module import time
+        import shutil
+        shutil.rmtree(self)
 
     def rename(self, target):
         """