Prefect repo maintainers: Would someone mind taking another look at this closed issue and my comment at the bottom? I think there's a pretty serious (but subtle) bug regarding what happens when prefect modules are imported. Namely, merely importing a class or method from a Prefect module does things before you've even called it. https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/4331 Would be happy to write up a new issue if that would be helpful.

I am somewhat confused what the issue here is. I am using

python-dotenv

whilst registering flows and I don't see to have issues...

Yeah you can pretty much ignore the issue itself and just read the last comment for details