Empirically, I have used the current accepted way to do lazy imports (import statement inside a function) before AI coding was even a mainstream thing, for personal code that sometimes needs a heavy import and sometimes doesn’t.

The lazy statement would be an improvement as it allows one to see all the imports at the top where you expect them to be.

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afH12 an hour ago | parent [-]

As a now deleted comment pointed out, lazy imports had been requested forever. They were rejected forever and were accepted just when BigCorps wanted them.

Python-dev now is paid to shore up the failed Instagram stack.

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brookst 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

I too am outraged that a product would prioritize its biggest users.

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saghm 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

Is the biggest user larger than the combined set of individual users who had asked for (or would benefit from) the same thing? I honestly don't know, but I don't think that things are always as simple as you're implying in a world where we have the collective action problem.

	▲	brookst 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you’re asking some some kind of abstract moral value sense, I have idea. If you’re asking whether project leads give more weight to a single, tangible, vocal stakeholder than they do to unknown numbers of anonymous and lightly-engaged stakeholders? Yes.