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Circular imports in property.py

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start with odml/property.py at line 119 and trace the property.py → section.py → property.py import cycle described in the issue. Determine a cleaner way to resolve that dependency, then verify that the circular import is gone without changing the intended behavior.

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Description

In property.py we have an import statement in the body of a method:
https://github.com/G-Node/python-odml/blob/master/odml/property.py#L119

This is done to avoid the circular import property.py → section.py → property.py.
We should find a cleaner way to resolve this.

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