From 46cf001c97ae13acd022f4e264b25af20ebf6e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AlexWaygood <alex.waygood@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:29:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-109653: Avoid a top-level import of `types` in `functools`

---
 Lib/functools.py                                               | 3 ++-
 .../Library/2023-09-24-13-28-35.gh-issue-109653.9IFU0B.rst     | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-09-24-13-28-35.gh-issue-109653.9IFU0B.rst

diff --git a/Lib/functools.py b/Lib/functools.py
index 6cb532323b1d67..55990e742bf23f 100644
--- a/Lib/functools.py
+++ b/Lib/functools.py
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@
 # import types, weakref  # Deferred to single_dispatch()
 from reprlib import recursive_repr
 from _thread import RLock
-from types import GenericAlias
 
+# Avoid importing types, so we can speedup import time
+GenericAlias = type(list[int])
 
 ################################################################################
 ### update_wrapper() and wraps() decorator
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-09-24-13-28-35.gh-issue-109653.9IFU0B.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-09-24-13-28-35.gh-issue-109653.9IFU0B.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c4f5a62433a2c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-09-24-13-28-35.gh-issue-109653.9IFU0B.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve import time of :mod:`functools` by around 13%. Patch by Alex
+Waygood.