From 9d209ce252d95f5c4b7f517755cc3f06e7cf4784 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Torsten=20W=C3=B6rtwein?= <twoertwein@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:40:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] TYP: move imports inside TYPE_CHECKING

---
 pandas/core/arrays/period.py              |  3 ++-
 pandas/core/computation/engines.py        |  5 ++++-
 pandas/core/computation/eval.py           |  5 ++++-
 pandas/core/computation/pytables.py       |  9 +++++++--
 pandas/core/groupby/categorical.py        |  6 +++++-
 pandas/core/groupby/generic.py            |  5 ++++-
 pandas/core/groupby/ops.py                |  5 ++++-
 pandas/core/indexes/extension.py          |  7 +++++--
 pandas/core/interchange/dataframe.py      |  2 +-
 pandas/core/internals/blocks.py           |  2 +-
 pandas/core/resample.py                   |  2 +-
 pandas/core/reshape/merge.py              |  2 +-
 pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py            |  2 +-
 pandas/io/excel/_odswriter.py             |  5 ++++-
 pandas/io/formats/info.py                 |  5 ++---
 pandas/io/formats/latex.py                |  4 +++-
 pandas/io/formats/string.py               |  9 +++++++--
 pandas/io/formats/xml.py                  |  9 +++++++--
 pandas/io/html.py                         |  5 ++++-
 pandas/io/json/_json.py                   |  5 ++++-
 pandas/io/parsers/arrow_parser_wrapper.py |  7 +++++--
 pandas/io/parsers/base_parser.py          |  5 ++++-
 pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py     | 11 +++++++----
 pandas/io/parsers/python_parser.py        | 12 +++++++-----
 pandas/io/spss.py                         | 10 +++++++---
 pandas/io/xml.py                          |  3 ++-
 pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/converter.py  |  5 ++++-
 pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py       |  4 ++--
 28 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/arrays/period.py b/pandas/core/arrays/period.py
index 12352c4490f29..cd88eb1e49be8 100644
--- a/pandas/core/arrays/period.py
+++ b/pandas/core/arrays/period.py
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@
 
 import pandas.core.algorithms as algos
 from pandas.core.arrays import datetimelike as dtl
-from pandas.core.arrays.base import ExtensionArray
 import pandas.core.common as com
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -91,6 +90,8 @@
         DatetimeArray,
         TimedeltaArray,
     )
+    from pandas.core.arrays.base import ExtensionArray
+
 
 BaseOffsetT = TypeVar("BaseOffsetT", bound=BaseOffset)
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/computation/engines.py b/pandas/core/computation/engines.py
index c293839776e26..2ea5a5367611f 100644
--- a/pandas/core/computation/engines.py
+++ b/pandas/core/computation/engines.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import abc
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
 from pandas.errors import NumExprClobberingError
 
@@ -11,7 +12,6 @@
     align_terms,
     reconstruct_object,
 )
-from pandas.core.computation.expr import Expr
 from pandas.core.computation.ops import (
     MATHOPS,
     REDUCTIONS,
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 
 import pandas.io.formats.printing as printing
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.computation.expr import Expr
+
 _ne_builtins = frozenset(MATHOPS + REDUCTIONS)
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/computation/eval.py b/pandas/core/computation/eval.py
index 1892069f78edd..ea70d0130a119 100644
--- a/pandas/core/computation/eval.py
+++ b/pandas/core/computation/eval.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import tokenize
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 import warnings
 
 from pandas._libs.lib import no_default
@@ -15,12 +16,14 @@
     PARSERS,
     Expr,
 )
-from pandas.core.computation.ops import BinOp
 from pandas.core.computation.parsing import tokenize_string
 from pandas.core.computation.scope import ensure_scope
 
 from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.computation.ops import BinOp
+
 
 def _check_engine(engine: str | None) -> str:
     """
diff --git a/pandas/core/computation/pytables.py b/pandas/core/computation/pytables.py
index 29af322ba0b42..5fbc26c057862 100644
--- a/pandas/core/computation/pytables.py
+++ b/pandas/core/computation/pytables.py
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 
 import ast
 from functools import partial
-from typing import Any
+from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
+    Any,
+)
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -12,7 +15,6 @@
     Timestamp,
 )
 from pandas._typing import npt
-from pandas.compat.chainmap import DeepChainMap
 from pandas.errors import UndefinedVariableError
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
@@ -34,6 +36,9 @@
     pprint_thing_encoded,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.compat.chainmap import DeepChainMap
+
 
 class PyTablesScope(_scope.Scope):
     __slots__ = ("queryables",)
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby/categorical.py b/pandas/core/groupby/categorical.py
index 2a2671374efc4..a9ad2401564ec 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby/categorical.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby/categorical.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
 import numpy as np
 
 from pandas.core.algorithms import unique1d
@@ -8,7 +10,9 @@
     CategoricalDtype,
     recode_for_categories,
 )
-from pandas.core.indexes.api import CategoricalIndex
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.indexes.api import CategoricalIndex
 
 
 def recode_for_groupby(
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby/generic.py b/pandas/core/groupby/generic.py
index 631f70f390319..b5b585fb78950 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby/generic.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from functools import partial
 from textwrap import dedent
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     Callable,
     Hashable,
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@
 import pandas.core.common as com
 from pandas.core.construction import create_series_with_explicit_dtype
 from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
-from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
 from pandas.core.groupby import base
 from pandas.core.groupby.groupby import (
     GroupBy,
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@
 
 from pandas.plotting import boxplot_frame_groupby
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
+
 # TODO(typing) the return value on this callable should be any *scalar*.
 AggScalar = Union[str, Callable[..., Any]]
 # TODO: validate types on ScalarResult and move to _typing
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby/ops.py b/pandas/core/groupby/ops.py
index 283e4a48657c5..d6b63956422c7 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby/ops.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby/ops.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import collections
 import functools
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Callable,
     Generic,
     Hashable,
@@ -77,7 +78,6 @@
 )
 from pandas.core.arrays.string_ import StringDtype
 from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
-from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
 from pandas.core.groupby import grouper
 from pandas.core.indexes.api import (
     CategoricalIndex,
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@
     get_indexer_dict,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
+
 
 class WrappedCythonOp:
     """
diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/extension.py b/pandas/core/indexes/extension.py
index 28a0b43d5b02b..5bf30dde33ba4 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/extension.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/extension.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Callable,
     TypeVar,
 )
@@ -21,10 +22,12 @@
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.generic import ABCDataFrame
 
-from pandas.core.arrays import IntervalArray
-from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
 from pandas.core.indexes.base import Index
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.arrays import IntervalArray
+    from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
+
 _T = TypeVar("_T", bound="NDArrayBackedExtensionIndex")
 _ExtensionIndexT = TypeVar("_ExtensionIndexT", bound="ExtensionIndex")
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/interchange/dataframe.py b/pandas/core/interchange/dataframe.py
index ddcffbff64670..9139cb41e3af7 100644
--- a/pandas/core/interchange/dataframe.py
+++ b/pandas/core/interchange/dataframe.py
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 from collections import abc
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-import pandas as pd
 from pandas.core.interchange.column import PandasColumn
 from pandas.core.interchange.dataframe_protocol import DataFrame as DataFrameXchg
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    import pandas as pd
     from pandas import Index
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py b/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
index df327716970f1..a70f9b7b20d5a 100644
--- a/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
+++ b/pandas/core/internals/blocks.py
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
     PeriodArray,
     TimedeltaArray,
 )
-from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
 from pandas.core.arrays.sparse import SparseDtype
 from pandas.core.base import PandasObject
 import pandas.core.common as com
@@ -115,6 +114,7 @@
         Float64Index,
         Index,
     )
+    from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
 
 # comparison is faster than is_object_dtype
 _dtype_obj = np.dtype("object")
diff --git a/pandas/core/resample.py b/pandas/core/resample.py
index 8797324166745..54b6b32ff1a68 100644
--- a/pandas/core/resample.py
+++ b/pandas/core/resample.py
@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@
 )
 from pandas.core.groupby.grouper import Grouper
 from pandas.core.groupby.ops import BinGrouper
-from pandas.core.indexes.api import Index
 from pandas.core.indexes.datetimes import (
     DatetimeIndex,
     date_range,
@@ -96,6 +95,7 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pandas import (
         DataFrame,
+        Index,
         Series,
     )
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py b/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
index e06a288c1eb38..77a0d34132da0 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/merge.py
@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@
     MultiIndex,
     Series,
 )
-from pandas.core import groupby
 import pandas.core.algorithms as algos
 from pandas.core.arrays import ExtensionArray
 from pandas.core.arrays._mixins import NDArrayBackedExtensionArray
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pandas import DataFrame
+    from pandas.core import groupby
     from pandas.core.arrays import DatetimeArray
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py b/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
index d4f4057af7bfd..5039a29b74f1b 100644
--- a/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
+++ b/pandas/core/reshape/reshape.py
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
     Index,
     MultiIndex,
 )
-from pandas.core.indexes.frozen import FrozenList
 from pandas.core.series import Series
 from pandas.core.sorting import (
     compress_group_index,
@@ -42,6 +41,7 @@
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from pandas.core.arrays import ExtensionArray
+    from pandas.core.indexes.frozen import FrozenList
 
 
 class _Unstacker:
diff --git a/pandas/io/excel/_odswriter.py b/pandas/io/excel/_odswriter.py
index a6e125f4b9f33..185e93591cfe0 100644
--- a/pandas/io/excel/_odswriter.py
+++ b/pandas/io/excel/_odswriter.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 import datetime
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     DefaultDict,
     Tuple,
@@ -21,7 +22,9 @@
     combine_kwargs,
     validate_freeze_panes,
 )
-from pandas.io.formats.excel import ExcelCell
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.io.formats.excel import ExcelCell
 
 
 class ODSWriter(ExcelWriter):
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/info.py b/pandas/io/formats/info.py
index 543df8bec657b..e0f6e01a65052 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/info.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/info.py
@@ -21,14 +21,13 @@
     WriteBuffer,
 )
 
-from pandas.core.indexes.api import Index
-
 from pandas.io.formats import format as fmt
 from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from pandas.core.frame import (
+    from pandas import (
         DataFrame,
+        Index,
         Series,
     )
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/latex.py b/pandas/io/formats/latex.py
index 0fb6971018fd0..6bf4412be95d4 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/latex.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/latex.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
     abstractmethod,
 )
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Iterator,
     Sequence,
 )
@@ -16,7 +17,8 @@
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.generic import ABCMultiIndex
 
-from pandas.io.formats.format import DataFrameFormatter
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.io.formats.format import DataFrameFormatter
 
 
 def _split_into_full_short_caption(
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/string.py b/pandas/io/formats/string.py
index 835e15789d615..071afc059b166 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/string.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/string.py
@@ -4,13 +4,18 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from shutil import get_terminal_size
-from typing import Iterable
+from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
+    Iterable,
+)
 
 import numpy as np
 
-from pandas.io.formats.format import DataFrameFormatter
 from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.io.formats.format import DataFrameFormatter
+
 
 class StringFormatter:
     """Formatter for string representation of a dataframe."""
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/xml.py b/pandas/io/formats/xml.py
index 4e8573b74ccdd..eb1835f0392b0 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/xml.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/xml.py
@@ -5,7 +5,10 @@
 
 import codecs
 import io
-from typing import Any
+from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
+    Any,
+)
 
 from pandas._typing import (
     CompressionOptions,
@@ -20,7 +23,6 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import isna
 
-from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 from pandas.core.shared_docs import _shared_docs
 
 from pandas.io.common import get_handle
@@ -29,6 +31,9 @@
     preprocess_data,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 @doc(
     storage_options=_shared_docs["storage_options"],
diff --git a/pandas/io/html.py b/pandas/io/html.py
index ad92883fe8572..dbbe61dcb8247 100644
--- a/pandas/io/html.py
+++ b/pandas/io/html.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import numbers
 import re
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Iterable,
     Pattern,
     Sequence,
@@ -30,7 +31,6 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
 
 from pandas.core.construction import create_series_with_explicit_dtype
-from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 
 from pandas.io.common import (
     file_exists,
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
 from pandas.io.parsers import TextParser
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 _IMPORTS = False
 _HAS_BS4 = False
 _HAS_LXML = False
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index d40b0357049a1..02a0b27f82ef8 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 from io import StringIO
 from itertools import islice
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     Callable,
     Generic,
@@ -53,7 +54,6 @@
     to_datetime,
 )
 from pandas.core.construction import create_series_with_explicit_dtype
-from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
 from pandas.core.reshape.concat import concat
 from pandas.core.shared_docs import _shared_docs
 
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@
 )
 from pandas.io.parsers.readers import validate_integer
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas.core.generic import NDFrame
+
 FrameSeriesStrT = TypeVar("FrameSeriesStrT", bound=Literal["frame", "series"])
 
 loads = json.loads
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/arrow_parser_wrapper.py b/pandas/io/parsers/arrow_parser_wrapper.py
index 21e8bb5f9e89f..2305c209936b6 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/arrow_parser_wrapper.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/arrow_parser_wrapper.py
@@ -1,14 +1,17 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
+
 from pandas._typing import ReadBuffer
 from pandas.compat._optional import import_optional_dependency
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.inference import is_integer
 
-from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
-
 from pandas.io.parsers.base_parser import ParserBase
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 class ArrowParserWrapper(ParserBase):
     """
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/base_parser.py b/pandas/io/parsers/base_parser.py
index 531fa5400f466..0e40e47bf7cb1 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/base_parser.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/base_parser.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from enum import Enum
 import itertools
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     Callable,
     DefaultDict,
@@ -59,7 +60,6 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import CategoricalDtype
 from pandas.core.dtypes.missing import isna
 
-from pandas import DataFrame
 from pandas.core import algorithms
 from pandas.core.arrays import Categorical
 from pandas.core.indexes.api import (
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
 
 from pandas.io.date_converters import generic_parser
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 class ParserBase:
     class BadLineHandleMethod(Enum):
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py b/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py
index 711d0857a5a1c..aec999e40b0f5 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from io import TextIOWrapper
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Hashable,
     Mapping,
     Sequence,
@@ -28,10 +29,6 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.concat import union_categoricals
 from pandas.core.dtypes.dtypes import ExtensionDtype
 
-from pandas import (
-    Index,
-    MultiIndex,
-)
 from pandas.core.indexes.api import ensure_index_from_sequences
 
 from pandas.io.parsers.base_parser import (
@@ -39,6 +36,12 @@
     is_index_col,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import (
+        Index,
+        MultiIndex,
+    )
+
 
 class CParserWrapper(ParserBase):
     low_memory: bool
diff --git a/pandas/io/parsers/python_parser.py b/pandas/io/parsers/python_parser.py
index 3e897f9b1334e..7c03a81dbc0e6 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parsers/python_parser.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parsers/python_parser.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import sys
 from typing import (
     IO,
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     DefaultDict,
     Hashable,
     Iterator,
@@ -38,16 +39,17 @@
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_integer
 from pandas.core.dtypes.inference import is_dict_like
 
-from pandas import (
-    Index,
-    MultiIndex,
-)
-
 from pandas.io.parsers.base_parser import (
     ParserBase,
     parser_defaults,
 )
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import (
+        Index,
+        MultiIndex,
+    )
+
 # BOM character (byte order mark)
 # This exists at the beginning of a file to indicate endianness
 # of a file (stream). Unfortunately, this marker screws up parsing,
diff --git a/pandas/io/spss.py b/pandas/io/spss.py
index 533cf7a7a6331..1b83d339a2990 100644
--- a/pandas/io/spss.py
+++ b/pandas/io/spss.py
@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Sequence
+from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
+    Sequence,
+)
 
 from pandas.compat._optional import import_optional_dependency
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.inference import is_list_like
 
-from pandas.core.api import DataFrame
-
 from pandas.io.common import stringify_path
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 def read_spss(
     path: str | Path,
diff --git a/pandas/io/xml.py b/pandas/io/xml.py
index d52482fe2ef5a..fbe3e41be88a9 100644
--- a/pandas/io/xml.py
+++ b/pandas/io/xml.py
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import is_list_like
 
-from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
 from pandas.core.shared_docs import _shared_docs
 
 from pandas.io.common import (
@@ -55,6 +54,8 @@
         _XSLTResultTree,
     )
 
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 @doc(
     storage_options=_shared_docs["storage_options"],
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/converter.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/converter.py
index 8510a7acac117..51a081645373e 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/converter.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/converter.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 )
 import functools
 from typing import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
     Final,
     Iterator,
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@
     to_offset,
 )
 from pandas._libs.tslibs.dtypes import FreqGroup
-from pandas._libs.tslibs.offsets import BaseOffset
 from pandas._typing import F
 
 from pandas.core.dtypes.common import (
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
 )
 import pandas.core.tools.datetimes as tools
 
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from pandas._libs.tslibs.offsets import BaseOffset
+
 # constants
 HOURS_PER_DAY: Final = 24.0
 MIN_PER_HOUR: Final = 60.0
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
index 62242a4a2ddab..3ca00ae41d587 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/hist.py
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
     remove_na_arraylike,
 )
 
-from pandas.core.frame import DataFrame
-
 from pandas.io.formats.printing import pprint_thing
 from pandas.plotting._matplotlib.core import (
     LinePlot,
@@ -44,6 +42,8 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from matplotlib.axes import Axes
 
+    from pandas import DataFrame
+
 
 class HistPlot(LinePlot):
     @property