alt Hacker NewsPython is such a weird language. Lazy imports are a bandaid for AI code base monstrosities with 1000 imports (1% of which are probably Shai Hulud now).
And now even type imports are apparently so slow that you have to disable them if unused during the normal untyped execution.
If Instagram or others wants a professional language, they should switch to Go or PHP instead of shoehorning strange features into a language that wasn't built for their use cases.
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Empirically, I have used the current accepted way to do lazy imports (import statement inside a function) before AI coding was even a mainstream thing, for personal code that sometimes needs a heavy import and sometimes doesn’t.
The lazy statement would be an improvement as it allows one to see all the imports at the top where you expect them to be.
On most unix-likes all "imports" via shared libraries (e.g. in C / C++) are lazy by default.
> Python is such a weird language. Lazy imports are a bandaid for AI code base monstrosities with 1000 imports
Just because you don’t like a feature doesn’t mean it’s because of AI and bad code.