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 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.

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