From 40347d487414d3f79b0ebdc334a01d954ca5b207 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: yassin <yassin@berri.ai>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 15:43:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: correct SlackAlerting lazy mapping and keep eager
 encoding path importable

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 litellm/__init__.py               | 19 +++++++++----------
 litellm/_lazy_imports.py          |  5 ++++-
 litellm/_lazy_imports_registry.py |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/litellm/__init__.py b/litellm/__init__.py
index 7cae1187de7..d6f363ddc58 100644
--- a/litellm/__init__.py
+++ b/litellm/__init__.py
@@ -2151,16 +2151,6 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 # Track if async client cleanup has been registered (for lazy loading)
 _async_client_cleanup_registered = False
 
-# Eager loading for backwards compatibility with VCR and other HTTP recording tools
-# When LITELLM_DISABLE_LAZY_LOADING is set, lazy-loaded attributes are loaded at import time
-# For now, this only affects encoding (tiktoken) as it was the only reported issue
-# See: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/18659
-# This ensures encoding is initialized before VCR starts recording HTTP requests
-if os.getenv("LITELLM_DISABLE_LAZY_LOADING", "").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on"):
-    # Load encoding at import time (pre-#18070 behavior)
-    # This ensures encoding is initialized before VCR starts recording
-    from .main import encoding
-
 
 def __getattr__(name: str) -> Any:
     """Lazy import handler with cached registry for improved performance."""
@@ -2377,3 +2367,12 @@ __all__ = list(STAR_IMPORT_PUBLIC_NAMES)  # mutable-ok: star imports require __a
 
 
 # ALL_LITELLM_RESPONSE_TYPES is lazy-loaded via __getattr__ to avoid loading utils at import time
+
+# Eager loading for backwards compatibility with VCR and other HTTP recording tools
+# When LITELLM_DISABLE_LAZY_LOADING is set, lazy-loaded attributes are loaded at import time
+# For now, this only affects encoding (tiktoken) as it was the only reported issue
+# See: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/18659
+# This ensures encoding is initialized before VCR starts recording HTTP requests
+# This block stays at the bottom so __getattr__ can resolve attributes main.py needs during its import
+if os.getenv("LITELLM_DISABLE_LAZY_LOADING", "").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on"):
+    from .main import encoding
diff --git a/litellm/_lazy_imports.py b/litellm/_lazy_imports.py
index 4c1c2a45bed..0e11d085b0e 100644
--- a/litellm/_lazy_imports.py
+++ b/litellm/_lazy_imports.py
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ def _get_utils_globals() -> dict[str, object]:
     This is where we cache imported attributes so we don't import them twice.
     When you do `litellm.utils.some_function`, it gets stored in this dictionary.
     """
-    return sys.modules["litellm.utils"].__dict__
+    cached: Final = sys.modules.get("litellm.utils")
+    if cached is not None:
+        return cached.__dict__
+    return importlib.import_module("litellm.utils").__dict__
 
 
 def _get_module_level_client_timeout(litellm_globals: Mapping[str, Any]) -> "float | httpx.Timeout | None":
diff --git a/litellm/_lazy_imports_registry.py b/litellm/_lazy_imports_registry.py
index 522706107cd..a150c7688a3 100644
--- a/litellm/_lazy_imports_registry.py
+++ b/litellm/_lazy_imports_registry.py
@@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ _SDK_SYMBOLS_IMPORT_MAP: Final[Mapping[str, tuple[str, str]]] = MappingProxyType
         "SerializerFunctionWrapHandler": ("litellm.assistants.main", "SerializerFunctionWrapHandler"),
         "ServiceUnavailableError": ("litellm.exceptions", "ServiceUnavailableError"),
         "ShellToolParam": ("litellm.types.llms.openai", "ShellToolParam"),
-        "SlackAlerting": ("litellm.integrations", "SlackAlerting"),
+        "SlackAlerting": ("litellm.integrations.SlackAlerting.slack_alerting", "SlackAlerting"),
         "StandardLoggingRoutingDecision": ("litellm.types.utils", "StandardLoggingRoutingDecision"),
         "StreamingChoices": ("litellm.types.utils", "StreamingChoices"),
         "SyncCursorPage": ("litellm.assistants.main", "SyncCursorPage"),