text-splitters[minor], langchain[minor], community[patch], templates, docs: langchain-text-splitters 0.0.1 (#18346)

libs/community/langchain_community/document_loaders/base.py

@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, AsyncIterator, Iterator, List, Optional
 from langchain_core.documents import Document
 from langchain_core.runnables import run_in_executor
 
-from langchain_community.document_loaders.blob_loaders import Blob
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from langchain.text_splitter import TextSplitter
+    from langchain_text_splitters import TextSplitter
+
+from langchain_community.document_loaders.blob_loaders import Blob
 
 
 class BaseLoader(ABC):
@@ -42,9 +42,17 @@ class BaseLoader(ABC):
         Returns:
             List of Documents.
         """
-        from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
 
         if text_splitter is None:
+            try:
+                from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
+            except ImportError as e:
+                raise ImportError(
+                    "Unable to import from langchain_text_splitters. Please specify "
+                    "text_splitter or install langchain_text_splitters with "
+                    "`pip install -U langchain-text-splitters`."
+                ) from e
+
             _text_splitter: TextSplitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter()
         else:
             _text_splitter = text_splitter