alt Hacker NewsWhat benefit does the lazy import have here - if we use the value in a type hint at module scope anyway? Would that require Deferred evaluation of annotations -- which I don't think are enabled by default?
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athorax • today at 2:58 PM
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What benefit does the lazy import have here - if we use the value in a type hint at module scope anyway? Would that require Deferred evaluation of annotations -- which I don't think are enabled by default?
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Type annotations are lazily evaluated by moving them behind a special annotations scope as of 3.14:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#anno...
With 3.15, using lazy typing imports is more or less an alternative to putting such imports behind an "if TYPE_CHECKING" guard.