My class looks something like this:

class MyConfig(BaseSettings):
    model_config = SettingsConfigDict(
        env_file=get_configs(),
    )

I didn’t realize that my get_configs() seems to be getting called on import. I discovered this when I had a bug in that function and pytest collection was failing.

Is this a python behavior or something specific to how the model_config attribute of the BaseSettings class works? It doesn’t make sense to me because I would expect my get_configs() function to only get called when the code that is actually instantiating MyConfig is executed.