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+"""Subset of inspect module from upstream python
+
+We use this instead of upstream because upstream inspect is slow to import, and
+significanly contributes to numpy import times. Importing this copy has almost
+no overhead.
+"""
+
import types
__all__ = ['getarspec', 'formatargspec']