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		onedognight 45 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 8... The pep didn’t mention considering reusing `async` instead of `lazy`. That would’ve conveyed the same thing to me without a new keyword, and would haven’t been similar to html’s usage `async`.

belval 44 days ago [–]

I personally would have preferred "defer import os" instead of "lazy import os". It might be the non-native showing but lazy import feels unserious.

bloppe 44 days ago | | [–]

Lazy is more canonical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation

_moof 44 days ago | | [–]

"Lazy" is standard language for this kind of behavior.

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