From 1d275c6b352edec76b7197958ab648ebb80b927f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:43:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Only import the ast module on demand

---
 kitty/conf/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/conf/utils.py b/kitty/conf/utils.py
index 63cce13d5..d4476aaf7 100644
--- a/kitty/conf/utils.py
+++ b/kitty/conf/utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 # vim:fileencoding=utf-8
 # License: GPL v3 Copyright: 2018, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>
 
-import ast
 import os
 import re
 import shlex
@@ -40,6 +39,7 @@ def to_cmdline(x):
 
 
 def python_string(text):
+    import ast
     return ast.literal_eval("'''" + text.replace("'''", "'\\''") + "'''")