On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Larry Hastings <[email protected]> wrote:
> If your imports are complicated, you could always hide them in a > function. I just tried this and it seems to work fine: > > def my_imports(): > global other_mod > import other_mod > > So, you could put all your imports in such a function, run it from inside > a "if typing.TYPE_CHECKING" block, and you'd have a convenient way of doing > all your imports from inside IPython too. > But static type checkers won't understand such imports. (Or is this about annotations used for other purposes? Then I suppose it's fine, but only as long as you completely give up static type checks for modules that use this idiom.) -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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