Invalid use of 'lazy' import

Reports invalid uses of lazy imports introduced by PEP 810.

The following uses are flagged:

a lazy import placed inside a function, class, or try body — lazy imports must appear at the module level;
lazy from ... import * — star imports cannot be lazy;
lazy from __future__ import ... — __future__ imports cannot be lazy.

Example:

def f():
    lazy import os  # lazy imports must appear at module level

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyLazyImport

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Inspection ID: PyLazyImportInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyLazyImport

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Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2026.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, PyCharm 2026.2, Qodana for JVM 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026