Remove all ``lazy_imports``

6 files changed, 41 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/astroid/builder.py b/astroid/builder.py
index dc1738ef..90f211be 100644
--- a/astroid/builder.py
+++ b/astroid/builder.py
@@ -17,19 +17,12 @@ import types
 from collections.abc import Iterator, Sequence
 from io import TextIOWrapper
 from tokenize import detect_encoding
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from astroid import bases, modutils, nodes, raw_building, rebuilder, util
 from astroid._ast import ParserModule, get_parser_module
 from astroid.exceptions import AstroidBuildingError, AstroidSyntaxError, InferenceError
 from astroid.manager import AstroidManager
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from astroid import objects
-else:
-    objects = util.lazy_import("objects")
-
-
 # The name of the transient function that is used to
 # wrap expressions to be extracted when calling
 # extract_node.
@@ -235,6 +228,8 @@ class AstroidBuilder(raw_building.InspectBuilder):
 
         This adds name to locals and handle members definition.
         """
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         try:
             frame = node.frame(future=True)
             for inferred in node.expr.infer():
diff --git a/astroid/inference.py b/astroid/inference.py
index 39bd94d7..e18ac69f 100644
--- a/astroid/inference.py
+++ b/astroid/inference.py
@@ -14,7 +14,16 @@ import typing
 from collections.abc import Callable, Generator, Iterable, Iterator
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Optional, TypeVar, Union
 
-from astroid import bases, constraint, decorators, helpers, nodes, protocols, util
+from astroid import (
+    bases,
+    constraint,
+    decorators,
+    helpers,
+    nodes,
+    objects,
+    protocols,
+    util,
+)
 from astroid.const import PY310_PLUS
 from astroid.context import (
     CallContext,
@@ -44,8 +53,6 @@ from astroid.typing import (
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from astroid.objects import Property
 
-# Prevents circular imports
-objects = util.lazy_import("objects")
 
 _T = TypeVar("_T")
 _BaseContainerT = TypeVar("_BaseContainerT", bound=nodes.BaseContainer)
diff --git a/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py b/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
index 5090c536..bd9e9f5b 100644
--- a/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
+++ b/astroid/interpreter/objectmodel.py
@@ -38,16 +38,12 @@ from astroid.exceptions import AttributeInferenceError, InferenceError, NoDefaul
 from astroid.manager import AstroidManager
 from astroid.nodes import node_classes
 
-objects = util.lazy_import("objects")
-builder = util.lazy_import("builder")
-
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 8):
     from typing import Literal
 else:
     from typing_extensions import Literal
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from astroid import builder
     from astroid.objects import Property
 
 IMPL_PREFIX = "attr_"
@@ -137,6 +133,8 @@ class ObjectModel:
     @property
     def attr___new__(self) -> bases.BoundMethod:
         """Calling cls.__new__(type) on an object returns an instance of 'type'."""
+        from astroid import builder  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         node: nodes.FunctionDef = builder.extract_node(
             """def __new__(self, cls): return cls()"""
         )
@@ -149,6 +147,8 @@ class ObjectModel:
     @property
     def attr___init__(self) -> bases.BoundMethod:
         """Calling cls.__init__() normally returns None."""
+        from astroid import builder  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         # The *args and **kwargs are necessary not to trigger warnings about missing
         # or extra parameters for '__init__' methods we don't infer correctly.
         # This BoundMethod is the fallback value for those.
@@ -628,6 +628,8 @@ class ContextManagerModel(ObjectModel):
         will bind this method's return value to the target(s) specified in the
         as clause of the statement, if any.
         """
+        from astroid import builder  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         node: nodes.FunctionDef = builder.extract_node("""def __enter__(self): ...""")
         # We set the parent as being the ClassDef of 'object' as that
         # is where this method originally comes from
@@ -644,6 +646,8 @@ class ContextManagerModel(ObjectModel):
         exception that caused the context to be exited. If the context was exited
         without an exception, all three arguments will be None.
         """
+        from astroid import builder  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         node: nodes.FunctionDef = builder.extract_node(
             """def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback): ..."""
         )
@@ -828,6 +832,8 @@ class DictModel(ObjectModel):
 
     @property
     def attr_items(self):
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         elems = []
         obj = node_classes.List(parent=self._instance)
         for key, value in self._instance.items:
@@ -836,26 +842,30 @@ class DictModel(ObjectModel):
             elems.append(elem)
         obj.postinit(elts=elems)
 
-        obj = objects.DictItems(obj)
-        return self._generic_dict_attribute(obj, "items")
+        items_obj = objects.DictItems(obj)
+        return self._generic_dict_attribute(items_obj, "items")
 
     @property
     def attr_keys(self):
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         keys = [key for (key, _) in self._instance.items]
         obj = node_classes.List(parent=self._instance)
         obj.postinit(elts=keys)
 
-        obj = objects.DictKeys(obj)
-        return self._generic_dict_attribute(obj, "keys")
+        keys_obj = objects.DictKeys(obj)
+        return self._generic_dict_attribute(keys_obj, "keys")
 
     @property
     def attr_values(self):
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         values = [value for (_, value) in self._instance.items]
         obj = node_classes.List(parent=self._instance)
         obj.postinit(values)
 
-        obj = objects.DictValues(obj)
-        return self._generic_dict_attribute(obj, "values")
+        values_obj = objects.DictValues(obj)
+        return self._generic_dict_attribute(values_obj, "values")
 
 
 class PropertyModel(ObjectModel):
diff --git a/astroid/nodes/scoped_nodes/scoped_nodes.py b/astroid/nodes/scoped_nodes/scoped_nodes.py
index e9fa04cf..0dfd1658 100644
--- a/astroid/nodes/scoped_nodes/scoped_nodes.py
+++ b/astroid/nodes/scoped_nodes/scoped_nodes.py
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 
 ITER_METHODS = ("__iter__", "__getitem__")
 EXCEPTION_BASE_CLASSES = frozenset({"Exception", "BaseException"})
-objects = util.lazy_import("objects")
 BUILTIN_DESCRIPTORS = frozenset(
     {"classmethod", "staticmethod", "builtins.classmethod", "builtins.staticmethod"}
 )
@@ -2365,6 +2364,8 @@ class ClassDef(
 
         :returns: An :class:`Instance` of the :class:`ClassDef` node
         """
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         try:
             if any(cls.name in EXCEPTION_BASE_CLASSES for cls in self.mro()):
                 # Subclasses of exceptions can be exception instances
@@ -2446,6 +2447,8 @@ class ClassDef(
         return attrs
 
     def _get_attribute_from_metaclass(self, cls, name, context):
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         try:
             attrs = cls.getattr(name, context=context, class_context=True)
         except AttributeInferenceError:
@@ -2484,6 +2487,8 @@ class ClassDef(
 
         :returns: The inferred possible values.
         """
+        from astroid import objects  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         # set lookup name since this is necessary to infer on import nodes for
         # instance
         context = copy_context(context)
diff --git a/astroid/protocols.py b/astroid/protocols.py
index e9cc5a6d..07d11092 100644
--- a/astroid/protocols.py
+++ b/astroid/protocols.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import operator as operator_mod
 from collections.abc import Callable, Generator, Iterator, Sequence
 from typing import Any, TypeVar
 
-from astroid import arguments, bases, decorators, helpers, nodes, util
+from astroid import arguments, bases, decorators, helpers, nodes, objects, util
 from astroid.const import Context
 from astroid.context import InferenceContext, copy_context
 from astroid.exceptions import (
@@ -31,10 +31,6 @@ from astroid.typing import (
     SuccessfulInferenceResult,
 )
 
-raw_building = util.lazy_import("raw_building")
-objects = util.lazy_import("objects")
-
-
 _TupleListNodeT = TypeVar("_TupleListNodeT", nodes.Tuple, nodes.List)
 
 
diff --git a/astroid/util.py b/astroid/util.py
index 43e04df3..50bde0b1 100644
--- a/astroid/util.py
+++ b/astroid/util.py
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import importlib
 import sys
 import warnings
 from typing import Any
@@ -26,12 +25,6 @@ def lazy_descriptor(obj):
     return DescriptorProxy(obj)
 
 
-def lazy_import(module_name: str) -> lazy_object_proxy.Proxy:
-    return lazy_object_proxy.Proxy(
-        lambda: importlib.import_module("." + module_name, "astroid")
-    )
-
-
 class UninferableBase:
     """Special inference object, which is returned when inference fails.
 
@@ -85,7 +78,8 @@ class BadUnaryOperationMessage(BadOperationMessage):
 
     @property
     def _object_type_helper(self):
-        helpers = lazy_import("helpers")
+        from astroid import helpers  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+
         return helpers.object_type
 
     def _object_type(self, obj):