On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 20:09 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:00 PM Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

  • It turns a None annotation into type(None).  Which means now you can't tell the difference between "None" and "type(None)".

Huh, I wasn't aware of that.


This has tripped up many people. Maybe we should just bite the bullet and change this?

+1, FWIW.