Improving PyCharm IDE experience #1124
Description
Hey I want to start off by saying I like your repository here a lot and use it for many of my own projects. That said I've noticed that compared to other libraries the PyCharm IDE experience is pretty lacking.
I believe the use of lazy_import, which I understand provides some amount of performance gains, also seems to obscure and hide the library from the IDE's autocomplete, intellisense, command + click, etc... features.
Below is an example of the code using the lazy_import, which is exactly how a developer would experience the library after pip installing it in PyCharm
I decided to modify the __init__.py directly to add the imports and I commented out the lazy_import function since it was upset about the namespace collisions occurring. I minimally tested the library afterwards and it seemed to work while also supporting much more IDE features. I do believe that most developers would not do something like this however and thus their local development experience would be considerably worse.
This is what the IDE "experience" was like after modifying the __init__.py file
I'm not sure what the best way to improve the IDE experience would be, while also keeping lazy_imports, but I do believe it is a worthwhile thing to do. A different python repository had a discussion on this very issue which maybe useful to you.