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Balaji Seshadri fd822b07c0 fix(text-splitters): restore lazy imports for heavy optional dependencies (#35469)
## Summary

- Moves `nltk`, `spacy`, `sentence-transformers`, and `konlpy` imports
back inside class constructors/functions so they are only loaded when
the respective splitter is actually instantiated
- Adds a subprocess-based regression test to verify no heavy packages
are imported at `langchain_text_splitters` load time

## Why

PR #32325 moved these optional dependency imports to module-level
`try/except` blocks (to satisfy ruff's `PLC0415` rule). Since
`__init__.py` imports all four splitter modules, this caused `import
langchain_text_splitters` to eagerly load all optional heavy packages,
resulting in:

- A PyTorch NVML warning (`UserWarning: Can't initialize NVML`) on
non-GPU machines
- A ~650MB memory spike on import (74MB → 736MB), vs ~50MB in 0.3.x

The fix restores the lazy import pattern with `# noqa: PLC0415` to
suppress the linter rule, which is the correct trade-off when a
dependency has high instantiation cost.

## Review notes

- The `PLC0415` suppressions are intentional — these are optional heavy
dependencies that should never be loaded unless the user explicitly
instantiates the splitter class
- The regression test uses a subprocess for proper isolation (the test
file itself imports `langchain_text_splitters` at the top, so
`sys.modules` checks within the same process would not reflect a clean
import state)

Fixes #35437.

> **AI disclaimer:** This PR was developed with assistance from Claude
Code (Anthropic AI).

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Co-authored-by: AshwathB-debug <ashwathbalaji04@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
2026-07-05 23:19:16 -04:00

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"""NLTK text splitter."""
from __future__ import annotations
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
from typing_extensions import override
from langchain_text_splitters.base import TextSplitter
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from collections.abc import Callable
class NLTKTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
"""Splitting text using NLTK package."""
def __init__(
self,
separator: str = "\n\n",
language: str = "english",
*,
use_span_tokenize: bool = False,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> None:
"""Initialize the NLTK splitter.
Args:
separator: The separator to use when combining splits.
language: The language to use.
use_span_tokenize: Whether to use `span_tokenize` instead of
`sent_tokenize`.
Raises:
ImportError: If NLTK is not installed.
ValueError: If `use_span_tokenize` is `True` and separator is not `''`.
"""
super().__init__(**kwargs)
self._separator = separator
if use_span_tokenize and self._separator:
msg = "When use_span_tokenize is True, separator should be ''"
raise ValueError(msg)
try:
import nltk # noqa: PLC0415,F401
except ImportError as err:
msg = "NLTK is not installed, please install it with `pip install nltk`."
raise ImportError(msg) from err
if use_span_tokenize:
self._tokenizer = self._span_tokenizer(language)
else:
self._tokenizer = self._sent_tokenizer(language)
@staticmethod
def _sent_tokenizer(language: str) -> Callable[[str], list[str]]:
import nltk # noqa: PLC0415
return lambda text: nltk.tokenize.sent_tokenize(text, language)
@staticmethod
def _span_tokenizer(language: str) -> Callable[[str], list[str]]:
import nltk # noqa: PLC0415
tokenizer = nltk.tokenize._get_punkt_tokenizer(language) # noqa: SLF001
def _tokenize(text: str) -> list[str]:
spans = list(tokenizer.span_tokenize(text))
splits = []
for i, (start, end) in enumerate(spans):
if i > 0:
prev_end = spans[i - 1][1]
sentence = text[prev_end:start] + text[start:end]
else:
sentence = text[start:end]
splits.append(sentence)
return splits
return _tokenize
@override
def split_text(self, text: str) -> list[str]:
# First we naively split the large input into a bunch of smaller ones.
splits = self._tokenizer(text)
return self._merge_splits(splits, self._separator)