Libraries for this have always existed, triggering import on first access. The problem was, they would break linters. But that's not an issue anymore with typin

Libraries for this have always existed, triggering import on first access. The problem was, they would break linters. But that's not an issue anymore with typing.TYPE_CHECKING. A PEP is very much welcome, but using lazy import libraries is a fairly common, very old, method of speeding things up. My pre PEP 690 code looks like this: import typing from lazy import LazyImport member = LazyImport('my_module.subpackage', 'member') member1, member2, = LazyImport('my_module', 'member1', 'member2') if typing.TYPE_CHECKING: # normal import, for linter/IDE/navigation. from my_module.subpackage import member from my_module import member1, member2