where to import

[andrea crotti]

Suppose I have a function which uses a few external libraries,
and this function is only called once every 10 executions.

Does it make sense to import these libraries for the whole module?

import sys

def fun():
    import x, y, z

Something like this is acceptable/good practice in the scenario I was
talking about?
Does it make any difference for performances too?
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