Drop typing.TYPE_CHECKING

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sphinx/ext/extlinks.py b/sphinx/ext/extlinks.py
index 53b051c45..29bfe928f 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/extlinks.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/extlinks.py
@@ -24,15 +24,14 @@
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
 """
 
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
-
 from docutils import nodes, utils
 from six import iteritems
 
 import sphinx
 from sphinx.util.nodes import split_explicit_title
 
-if TYPE_CHECKING:
+if False:
+    # For type annotation
     from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple  # NOQA
     from docutils.parsers.rst.states import Inliner  # NOQA
     from sphinx.application import Sphinx  # NOQA