https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#implementing-lazy-imports reading through the

importlib

docs and I find that there was a

LazyLoader

since 3.5? And this is exactly how

lazy_loader

is using it :) https://github.com/scientific-python/lazy_loader/blob/789a2eeea36c5ef96a4a42d595945690f4346e5a/lazy_loader/__init__.py#L244-L249

There's a couple of things in Kedro that can use this instead of our custom implementations.