Blog post here I saw this tweet over the weekend and wanted to dive into the fundamental question behind this: Given this potential error, why do we use conditional imports at all, or, more specifically, when might we use this pattern? The TL;DR is that we use this pattern to hedge between the differences in typechecking enforced by mypy and typechecking as it happens at runtime, particularly when we have large sets of custom classes that depend on each other and could result in circular depe...
