Get user profile in a single GET request

[olivialba]

To get a profile you would need to first get the current user which is already a GET request and then get the profile which is another GET request, but what if I already have the user_id. It should be possible to directly insert the id into /api/v1/users/:user_id/profile.

But I can't seem to be able to find a way; what I am doing right now is:
profile = Canvas(URL, API_KEY).get_current_user().get_profile().

But this makes two request:

INFO:canvasapi.requester:Request: GET https://uncc.instructure.com/api/v1/users/self
INFO:canvasapi.requester:Request: GET https://uncc.instructure.com/api/v1/users/264631/profile

How can I make a request to the profile directly, with only one GET request, if I know the user_id already? I also have this problem when getting assignments for a course but needing to use get_course before getting the assignment even though I already know the course id.