bpython starts up slowly in Python 2 at the moment due to importing requests taking a while - this is my temp solution

import lazyload
lazyload.make_lazy('requests')
import requests # nearly instant
requests.get    # takes 1.2 seconds

Seems to work in Python 2.7, 3.4, and 3.5 (maybe others too?)

Authors:

• Thomas Ballinger
• Joe Jevnik