I haven't commented on these, as I don't use type annotations in the "usual" way., but: On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 12:06 PM Samuel Colvin <samcolvin@gmail.com> wrote:
I maintain pydantic <https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/> which uses type annotations to provide runtime data validation.
I maintain in in-house system kinda similar to pydantic that doesn't use type annotations for validation, but does use them for other things (mostly serializing/deserializing to/from JSON), and other kinds of data validation.
using `typing.get_type_hints()` is not a good replacement for type annotations that are accessible as python objects.
Absolutely. It is very, very, handy to simply have the object itself easily accessible. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython