Cache late imported async_get_exception_message for HomeAssistantError (#113683)

* Cache late imported async_get_exception_message for HomeAssistantError

* Use a dict to store the function cache

* Update homeassistant/exceptions.py

Co-authored-by: J. Nick Koston <nick@koston.org>

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Co-authored-by: J. Nick Koston <nick@koston.org>

homeassistant/exceptions.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-from collections.abc import Generator, Sequence
+from collections.abc import Callable, Generator, Sequence
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
@@ -10,6 +10,25 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .core import Context
 
 
+_function_cache: dict[str, Callable[[str, str, dict[str, str] | None], str]] = {}
+
+
+def import_async_get_exception_message() -> (
+    Callable[[str, str, dict[str, str] | None], str]
+):
+    """Return a method that can fetch a translated exception message.
+
+    Defaults to English, requires translations to already be cached.
+    """
+
+    # pylint: disable-next=import-outside-toplevel
+    from .helpers.translation import (
+        async_get_exception_message as async_get_exception_message_import,
+    )
+
+    return async_get_exception_message_import
+
+
 class HomeAssistantError(Exception):
     """General Home Assistant exception occurred."""
 
@@ -52,10 +71,12 @@ class HomeAssistantError(Exception):
             assert self.translation_key is not None
             assert self.translation_domain is not None
 
-        # pylint: disable-next=import-outside-toplevel
-        from .helpers.translation import async_get_exception_message
+        if "async_get_exception_message" not in _function_cache:
+            _function_cache[
+                "async_get_exception_message"
+            ] = import_async_get_exception_message()
 
-        self._message = async_get_exception_message(
+        self._message = _function_cache["async_get_exception_message"](
             self.translation_domain, self.translation_key, self.translation_placeholders
         )
         return self._message