From 5435b2c9f0ea58196236a1609e915cc1ed130ba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "T. Franzel" <tfranzel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:11:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mitigate global dependency on inflection #8017 (#8781)

---
 rest_framework/schemas/openapi.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/schemas/openapi.py b/rest_framework/schemas/openapi.py
index 8e0f400caa..840f6977ec 100644
--- a/rest_framework/schemas/openapi.py
+++ b/rest_framework/schemas/openapi.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 )
 from django.db import models
 from django.utils.encoding import force_str
-from inflection import pluralize
 
 from rest_framework import (
     RemovedInDRF315Warning, exceptions, renderers, serializers
@@ -249,6 +248,8 @@ def get_operation_id_base(self, path, method, action):
                 name = name[:-len(action)]
 
         if action == 'list':
+            from inflection import pluralize
+
             name = pluralize(name)
 
         return name