Hey team, for python dependency inference, is there any way to configure it to ignore imports from underneath

if TYPE_CHECKING:

blocks? (I'm not actually sure if we want to do this yet but wanted to check if it's even possible.)

Not sure if this works for blocks, or just lines:

# pants: no-infer-dep

Right! I've been using that in some places but it would be a bit messy and onerous to manually add that to every place where we do imports for type checking only.

Ah

keep in mind that ignoring these dependencies means that mypy might not detect a failure (you change a class from

if TYPE_CHECKING

block, and then a consumer of it isn't rechecked even though it should be)

Yeahhhh thinking about this a bit more, we probably don't want to do this ...

Yeah, overall, I hate "if TYPE_CHECKING" and would absolutely never use it

I suspect it is often used to avoid circular dependency issues

I use it often when retrofitting code with types, because circular dependencies. Doesn't really cause an import problem until those deps cross deployable boundaries.