PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

[MegaIng (Cornelius Krupp)]

@tinchit0

So what’s the current status regarding using lazy imports for optional dependencies? Will lazy be the way to go? It still seems very valuable to have a mechanism that allows importing optional packages in the top of the module without raising ModuleNotFoundError on installations where they’re missing.

• You are not guaranteed that the import will be lazy - this is why the PEP says “potentially lazy import”.
• If you do import it lazy, usages of the symbol starts raising ImportError - this is probably not what you want.

So no. It’s generally not the way to go.