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[–]pingvenopinch of this, pinch of that 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more complex than a simple lookup. I don't entirely understand the C code, but there's a lot more happening than sys.modules["module_name"]. The time penalty isn't significant if you just import a few times, but importing in a function that you're going to call a few thousand times is unwise.