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fd822b07c0 fix(text-splitters): restore lazy imports for heavy optional dependencies (#35469)
## Summary

- Moves `nltk`, `spacy`, `sentence-transformers`, and `konlpy` imports
back inside class constructors/functions so they are only loaded when
the respective splitter is actually instantiated
- Adds a subprocess-based regression test to verify no heavy packages
are imported at `langchain_text_splitters` load time

## Why

PR #32325 moved these optional dependency imports to module-level
`try/except` blocks (to satisfy ruff's `PLC0415` rule). Since
`__init__.py` imports all four splitter modules, this caused `import
langchain_text_splitters` to eagerly load all optional heavy packages,
resulting in:

- A PyTorch NVML warning (`UserWarning: Can't initialize NVML`) on
non-GPU machines
- A ~650MB memory spike on import (74MB → 736MB), vs ~50MB in 0.3.x

The fix restores the lazy import pattern with `# noqa: PLC0415` to
suppress the linter rule, which is the correct trade-off when a
dependency has high instantiation cost.

## Review notes

- The `PLC0415` suppressions are intentional — these are optional heavy
dependencies that should never be loaded unless the user explicitly
instantiates the splitter class
- The regression test uses a subprocess for proper isolation (the test
file itself imports `langchain_text_splitters` at the top, so
`sys.modules` checks within the same process would not reflect a clean
import state)

Fixes #35437.

> **AI disclaimer:** This PR was developed with assistance from Claude
Code (Anthropic AI).

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Co-authored-by: AshwathB-debug <ashwathbalaji04@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Mason Daugherty <github@mdrxy.com>
2026-07-05 23:19:16 -04:00

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"""Sentence transformers text splitter."""
from __future__ import annotations
from importlib import import_module
from typing import Any, cast
from typing_extensions import override
from langchain_text_splitters.base import TextSplitter, Tokenizer, split_text_on_tokens
class SentenceTransformersTokenTextSplitter(TextSplitter):
"""Splitting text to tokens using sentence model tokenizer."""
def __init__(
self,
chunk_overlap: int = 50,
model_name: str = "sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2",
tokens_per_chunk: int | None = None,
model_kwargs: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> None:
"""Create a new `TextSplitter`.
Args:
chunk_overlap: The number of tokens to overlap between chunks.
model_name: The name of the sentence transformer model to use.
tokens_per_chunk: The number of tokens per chunk.
If `None`, uses the maximum tokens allowed by the model.
model_kwargs: Additional parameters for model initialization.
Parameters of sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer can be used.
Raises:
ImportError: If the `sentence_transformers` package is not installed.
ValueError: If `tokens_per_chunk` exceeds the model's maximum token limit.
"""
super().__init__(**kwargs, chunk_overlap=chunk_overlap)
try:
sentence_transformers = cast("Any", import_module("sentence_transformers"))
sentence_transformer_cls = sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer
except ImportError as err:
msg = (
"Could not import sentence_transformers python package. "
"This is needed in order to use SentenceTransformersTokenTextSplitter. "
"Please install it with `pip install sentence-transformers`."
)
raise ImportError(msg) from err
self.model_name = model_name
self._model = sentence_transformer_cls(self.model_name, **(model_kwargs or {}))
self.tokenizer = self._model.tokenizer
self._initialize_chunk_configuration(tokens_per_chunk=tokens_per_chunk)
def _initialize_chunk_configuration(self, *, tokens_per_chunk: int | None) -> None:
self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk = self._model.max_seq_length
if tokens_per_chunk is None:
if self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk is None:
msg = (
"The model does not have a maximum token limit, "
"and tokens_per_chunk was not provided. "
"Please provide a value for tokens_per_chunk."
)
raise ValueError(msg)
self.tokens_per_chunk = self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk
else:
self.tokens_per_chunk = tokens_per_chunk
if (
self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk is not None
and self.tokens_per_chunk > self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk
):
msg = (
f"The token limit of the models '{self.model_name}'"
f" is: {self.maximum_tokens_per_chunk}."
f" Argument tokens_per_chunk={self.tokens_per_chunk}"
f" > maximum token limit."
)
raise ValueError(msg)
@override
def split_text(self, text: str) -> list[str]:
"""Splits the input text into smaller components by splitting text on tokens.
This method encodes the input text using a private `_encode` method, then
strips the start and stop token IDs from the encoded result. It returns the
processed segments as a list of strings.
Args:
text: The input text to be split.
Returns:
A list of string components derived from the input text after encoding and
processing.
"""
def encode_strip_start_and_stop_token_ids(text: str) -> list[int]:
return self._encode(text)[1:-1]
tokenizer = Tokenizer(
chunk_overlap=self._chunk_overlap,
tokens_per_chunk=self.tokens_per_chunk,
decode=self.tokenizer.decode,
encode=encode_strip_start_and_stop_token_ids,
)
return split_text_on_tokens(text=text, tokenizer=tokenizer)
def count_tokens(self, *, text: str) -> int:
"""Counts the number of tokens in the given text.
This method encodes the input text using a private `_encode` method and
calculates the total number of tokens in the encoded result.
Args:
text: The input text for which the token count is calculated.
Returns:
The number of tokens in the encoded text.
"""
return len(self._encode(text))
_max_length_equal_32_bit_integer: int = 2**32
def _encode(self, text: str) -> list[int]:
token_ids_with_start_and_end_token_ids = self.tokenizer.encode(
text,
max_length=self._max_length_equal_32_bit_integer,
truncation="do_not_truncate",
)
return cast("list[int]", token_ids_with_start_and_end_token_ids)