Lazy imports have been proposed before, and were rejected most recently back in 2022: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-690-lazy-imports-again/1966.... If I recall correctly, lazy imports are a feature supported in Cinder, Meta's version of CPython, and the PEP was driven by folks that worked on Cinder. Last time, a lot of the discussion centered around questions like: Should this be opt-in or opt-out? At what level? Should it be a build-flag for CPython itself? Etc. The linked post suggests that the Steering Council ultimately rejected it because of the complexity it would introduce to have two divergent "modes" of importing.
I hope this proposal succeeds. I would love to use this feature.
I hope this proposal succeeds. I would love to use this feature.