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Submodule plots is in `__all__` but not imported in `__init__.py`

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Start in the package init.py and compare its all entry for plots with the documented import example. Verify the current behavior of import cmocean followed by cmocean.plots.plot_gallery(). Done means the documented access no longer raises AttributeError.

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Hi,

This might be deliberate but it seems that the submodule plots is not imported in the __init__.py but is included in __all__.
I can see there are some optional dependencies for some of the functions but their imports are only inside the concerned functions.

That means that if someone wants to use the plots submodule they would need to explicitly import it, which seems a bit strange when the documentation has this:

import cmocean
cmocean.plots.plot_gallery()

Which currently gives:

AttributeError: module 'cmocean' has no attribute 'plots'
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