From 8637a5cda0ba4a2cf119a842f9cc9eb05f6cc087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Gorelli <33491632+MarcoGorelli@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:58:38 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] simplify dask imports

---
 narwhals/_dask/dataframe.py | 5 +----
 narwhals/_dask/namespace.py | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/narwhals/_dask/dataframe.py b/narwhals/_dask/dataframe.py
index de169fd5c..d493a9631 100644
--- a/narwhals/_dask/dataframe.py
+++ b/narwhals/_dask/dataframe.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from typing import Sequence
 
 import dask.dataframe as dd
+import pandas as pd
 
 from narwhals._dask.utils import add_row_index
 from narwhals._dask.utils import parse_exprs_and_named_exprs
@@ -81,8 +82,6 @@ def with_columns(self, *exprs: DaskExpr, **named_exprs: DaskExpr) -> Self:
         return self._from_native_frame(df)
 
     def collect(self) -> Any:
-        import pandas as pd
-
         from narwhals._pandas_like.dataframe import PandasLikeDataFrame
 
         result = self._native_frame.compute()
@@ -127,8 +126,6 @@ def select(
 
         if not new_series:
             # return empty dataframe, like Polars does
-            import pandas as pd
-
             return self._from_native_frame(
                 dd.from_pandas(pd.DataFrame(), npartitions=self._native_frame.npartitions)
             )
diff --git a/narwhals/_dask/namespace.py b/narwhals/_dask/namespace.py
index b5fcd82f7..626937af3 100644
--- a/narwhals/_dask/namespace.py
+++ b/narwhals/_dask/namespace.py
@@ -99,8 +99,6 @@ def func(df: DaskLazyFrame) -> list[dx.Series]:
         )
 
     def len(self) -> DaskExpr:
-        import pandas as pd
-
         def func(df: DaskLazyFrame) -> list[dx.Series]:
             if not df.columns:
                 return [