You may have a very long python-path and/or script loading a lot of modules initially if it is taking so long to start up. For example, in a recent script I de

You may have a very long python-path and/or script loading a lot of modules initially if it is taking so long to start up. For example, in a recent script I deferred loading the requests module and startup improved a few tenths of a second. Rinse, repeat.