From 9f536c51db63f183d7569974326cd8341d6e0922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?B=C3=A9n=C3=A9dikt=20Tran?=
 <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 13:15:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Improve import time of the `secrets` module.

Importing `secrets` is now two times faster.

The `base64` module is now locally imported by `secrets.token_urlsafe`
and is no more implicitly exposed as `secrets.base64`.
---
 Lib/secrets.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/secrets.py b/Lib/secrets.py
index 566a09b7311154..8766c5728fd6a0 100644
--- a/Lib/secrets.py
+++ b/Lib/secrets.py
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
            ]
 
 
-import base64
-
 from hmac import compare_digest
 from random import SystemRandom
 
@@ -67,5 +65,7 @@ def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
     'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
 
     """
+    import base64
+
     tok = token_bytes(nbytes)
     return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii')

From 0c009fa04ce66adf64ac9e7b5f32d5ebc5a63625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?B=C3=A9n=C3=A9dikt=20Tran?=
 <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:24:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] blurb

---
 .../next/Library/2025-01-10-12-19-42.gh-issue-118761.i4yXe3.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-10-12-19-42.gh-issue-118761.i4yXe3.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-10-12-19-42.gh-issue-118761.i4yXe3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-10-12-19-42.gh-issue-118761.i4yXe3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..4b7aee6c5b8253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-01-10-12-19-42.gh-issue-118761.i4yXe3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve import time of :mod:`secrets` by a factor two. This is achieved by
+importing :mod:`base64` on demand. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.