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continue exposing some retry imports for backwards compatibility #575
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Marking this as a P1 bug since it does block shipping the next release, which is intended to be only a minor version update.
After a separate discussion, we agreed to not expose standard imports transitively if we don't need them in our implementation.
I think it would be good if the Python community spelled this out somewhere, but that's a separate issue.
For backwards compatibility, we need to expose some imports that were removed in #495. These include at least
google.api_core.datetime_helpers, but other diffs in the imports that we may want to restore areapi_core.exceptions,datetime, andlogging