compatibility with `coverage`?

I came across this issue when importing highdicom with coverage:

pip install highdicom
echo "import highdicom" > my_test.py
coverage run my_test.py

it seems the import always takes a long time, compared with other python packages such as numpy.

here is a minimal example in colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/18qCwaHr3CWhvTmdY8dZKA2Pn0dDzlmvR

[CPBridge]

There is still room for improvement here, but marking this immediate issue as resolved

[wyli]

thank you, in the colab notebook now it works fine!

!pip install coverage
!pip install git+https://github.com/herrmannlab/highdicom.git
!echo "import highdicom" > my_test.py
!coverage run my_test.py