PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

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Is there any way to check if an import will succeed but still keep the import mostly lazy?

What I want is something like:

try:
    lazy import numpy
    using_numpy = True
except ImportError:
    using_numpy = False

# Here numpy is still only lazily imported

Obviously this requires some part of the import machinery to at least access the filesystem so it could not be a completely lazy import.

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