Could you do something insane, like kick off another thread to import it and maybe it'll already be loaded by the time the code needs it actually gets there? I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, maybe. You could have, you know, you could do things like that, which is kind of interesting. Who knows, maybe someday Python will have a lazy import keyword, probably not. A lot of things are wrong though. It's true. Okay. The person using it would think Python is awesome. It's so fast. And then not realizing that that, that it's actually importing the universe behind the schemes of behind a thread taking like 30 seconds or something. So exactly

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