It would be resolved at the time the value is accessed in the lazy map.
The map then stores the resultant value to avoid attempting to re-
import the module on every access.

On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 08:31 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:24 AM Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Probably one of countless examples of performing lazy imports, for
> > precisely the reason of preventing circular imports:
> > https://github.com/fondat/fondat-core/blob/main/fondat/lazy.py
> > 
> 
> In the case of circular imports, at what point should the lazy import
> be resolved?
> 
> ChrisA
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