From e175125b75727971a72990fec6e96d63f21235de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taneli Hukkinen <3275109+hukkin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:05:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Remove `import re` from script template

---
 src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
index aef42aa9eef..3bc8da42ddf 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
@@ -412,6 +412,19 @@ def _raise_for_invalid_entrypoint(specification: str) -> None:
 
 
 class PipScriptMaker(ScriptMaker):
+    # Override distlib's default script template with one that
+    # doesn't import `re` module, allowing scripts to load faster.
+    script_template = r"""# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import sys
+from %(module)s import %(import_name)s
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if sys.argv[0].endswith('-script.pyw'):
+        sys.argv[0] = sys.argv[0][: -11]
+    elif sys.argv[0].endswith('.exe'):
+        sys.argv[0] = sys.argv[0][: -4]
+    sys.exit(%(func)s())
+"""
+
     def make(
         self, specification: str, options: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
     ) -> List[str]:

From 9b993f0084b5c04b946a36d6f844b50b7fa37f01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taneli Hukkinen <3275109+hukkin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:20:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Add NEWS

---
 news/13165.feature.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 news/13165.feature.rst

diff --git a/news/13165.feature.rst b/news/13165.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e21ddac50ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/13165.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Speed up small CLI tools by removing ``import re`` from the executable template.

From 1d49aa3b7fb930d5923f8c6d03fea51ad9f38aa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taneli Hukkinen <3275109+hukkin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:17:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Address PR review

---
 src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
index 3bc8da42ddf..da3b5bd8125 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
@@ -418,10 +418,8 @@ class PipScriptMaker(ScriptMaker):
 import sys
 from %(module)s import %(import_name)s
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    if sys.argv[0].endswith('-script.pyw'):
-        sys.argv[0] = sys.argv[0][: -11]
-    elif sys.argv[0].endswith('.exe'):
-        sys.argv[0] = sys.argv[0][: -4]
+    if sys.argv[0].endswith('.exe'):
+        sys.argv[0] = sys.argv[0][:-4]
     sys.exit(%(func)s())
 """
 

From 88cb374fe9e32c1a66d65722952866e5582a5e3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taneli Hukkinen <3275109+hukkin@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:27:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Remove legacy file encoding declaration

---
 src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
index da3b5bd8125..0e94cb80678 100644
--- a/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
+++ b/src/pip/_internal/operations/install/wheel.py
@@ -414,8 +414,7 @@ def _raise_for_invalid_entrypoint(specification: str) -> None:
 class PipScriptMaker(ScriptMaker):
     # Override distlib's default script template with one that
     # doesn't import `re` module, allowing scripts to load faster.
-    script_template = r"""# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-import sys
+    script_template = r"""import sys
 from %(module)s import %(import_name)s
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     if sys.argv[0].endswith('.exe'):