Comment by kzrdude
3 hours ago
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?
3 hours ago
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?
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.
Ah, thanks for the update. My only check before asking was to check if the future feature for annotations had been enabled by default yet. It has then effectively been abandoned instead, I guess.
Yup, "from __future__ import annotations" will eventually be removed:
> from __future__ import annotations (PEP 563) will continue to exist with its current behavior at least until Python 3.13 reaches its end-of-life. Subsequently, it will be deprecated and eventually removed.
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