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No, the point is that most people in this thread do not appreciate the complexity of implementing lazy imports. If you disagree, your energy is better spent talking to a CPython core developer about implementation details of making baseless assertions from an ivory tower.

There are many people here who think enabling lazy imports is as simple as flipping a light switch. They have no idea what they're talking about.



You’ve misread the discussion

This thread was a tangent from lazy imports.

And actually people do appreciate the complexities of changes like this. We were responding to a specific comment that that said “it’s impossible”. Saying something is “possible” isn’t the same as saying “it’s easy”.


Reading comprehension failure on your part.




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