whatsnew

Author: TomAugspurger

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt

@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :func:`Categorical.rename_categories` now accepts a dict-like argument as `new_categories` and only updates the categories found in that dict. (:issue:`17336`)
 - :func:`read_excel` raises ``ImportError`` with a better message if ``xlrd`` is not installed. (:issue:`17613`)
 - :meth:`DataFrame.assign` will preserve the original order of ``**kwargs`` for Python 3.6+ users instead of sorting the column names
+- Improved the import time of pandas by about 2.25x  (:issue:`16764`)
 
 
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