Address comments

Author: brittanyrey

Lib/pdb.py

@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@
 import signal
 import socket
 import typing
-lazy import asyncio
 import inspect
 import weakref
 import builtins
@@ -102,6 +101,8 @@
 from types import CodeType
 from warnings import deprecated
 
+lazy import asyncio
+
 try:
     import _pyrepl.utils
 except ModuleNotFoundError:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-08-31-11-40-00.gh-issue-156774.Pd8Lz1.rst

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-Speed up :mod:`pdb` startup by deferring the :mod:`asyncio` import, and by
-skipping it entirely in ``Pdb._get_asyncio_task()`` when no event loop has
-been used.
+Speed up :mod:`pdb` startup by only importing :mod:`asyncio` when the program
+being debugged has already imported it.