Summary

Python 3.15 adds deferred / lazy imports (What’s New in Python 3.15 – Lazy imports, PEP 810).

lazy is a soft keyword only in these forms:

lazy import foo
lazy from foo import bar

In all other positions it remains a normal identifier (e.g. lazy = 1, def lazy(): ..., from lazy import x).

VS Code / VSCodium themes such as Dark Modern already color keyword.control.import.* (purple). The bundled MagicPython grammar (extensions/python/syntaxes/MagicPython.tmLanguage.json) does not yet scope lazy in those positions, so soft-keyword uses stay unhighlighted while import / from are highlighted.

Requested change

Do not add lazy to the general keyword list.

Optionally capture lazy only when it immediately precedes import or from, with a scope such as keyword.control.import.lazy.python (same approach as Sublime Text’s Python.sublime-syntax import-statements).

Example (MagicPython #import / source YAML shape):

- begin: \b(?<!\.)(?:(lazy)\s+)?(from)\b(?=.+import)
  beginCaptures:
    '1': {name: keyword.control.import.lazy.python}
    '2': {name: keyword.control.import.python}

- begin: \b(?<!\.)(?:(lazy)\s+)?(import)\b
  beginCaptures:
    '1': {name: keyword.control.import.lazy.python}
    '2': {name: keyword.control.import.python}

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