resolve cyclic import issues in utilities

[Borda]

What does this PR do?

Resolving some cyclic import issues

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[pep8speaks]

Hello @Borda! Thanks for updating this PR.

There are currently no PEP 8 issues detected in this Pull Request. Cheers! 🍻

Comment last updated at 2020-12-24 22:01:09 UTC

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #5256 (fe9415f) into release/1.2-dev (2718d7d) will increase coverage by 0%.
The diff coverage is 95%.

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