check TYPE_CHECKING value before importing pandas
@@ -186,6 +186,9 @@ from .time import time_gate
from .constants import NumberLike, ZERO, K_BOLTZMANN, T0
from .constants import S_DEFINITIONS, S_DEF_DEFAULT
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+ import pandas as pd
+
#from matplotlib import cm
#import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
#import matplotlib.tri as tri
