Aaron Meurer

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Why are `unittest` and `asyncio` imported? Neither of those are explicitly referenced anywhere in the codebase.

By the way, some lazy importing functionality is being proposed to be added to core Python itself https://peps.python.org/pep-0690/. Presumably that PEP would make this whole discussion unnecessary if implemented. I'm...

> The 3rd party multipledispatch module does not seem to be actively maintained e.g. it hasn't had a release since 4 years ago in 2018. It's not clear that it...

I think @oscarbenjamin is actually the one who's volunteering, but if your trust only extends as far as me I can take that on for now.

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I can imagine use-cases for exporting a SymPy expression to JSON in a structured way rather than just as a srepr blob that can only be understood by SymPy. For...

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It also seems to break numba.jit (although that has other issues too, see https://github.com/numba/numba/issues/2328).

As I said above, it should only apply when it needs to, i.e., when the names aren't valid Python identifiers.