Pieter Eendebak

@ > @eendebakpt Can you add a whats-new entry describing the user-facing implications of this change? > > See https://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/master/docs/source/whatsnew/pr @MrMino Done. One test is still failing. Perhaps not related...

@MrMino or @ccordoba12 You you review this PR once more please?

@ccordoba12 Is there anything that needs to be done to merge this?

@MrMino Could you review again?

> Come to think of it, maybe there's actually a way of making `latex` accept the tilde? > > Have a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/425954/tilde-in-a-image-path. > > Have you tried to...

> I understand, but from my experience with `latex`, IIRC it parses some of its arguments as if they are written _in latex_. Unfortunately I don't have the environment ready...

@JMuff22 I encountered the same issue and took the liberty to create a PR based on your code.

Some other projects are considering lazy imports as well: https://scientific-python.org/specs/spec-0001/

@asmeurer @oscarbenjamin The PR was rebased to master. The improvement in startup time is about 9 ms on a total of 250 ms. I think the improvement is only a...

@jenshnielsen With qcodes updated to master the import of azure is indeed lazy. There is still room for improvement though. Running: ``` python -c "import time; import xarray; import pandas;...