On behalf of the Python Steering Council, we are pleased to accept PEP 655 - Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing <https://peps.python.org/pep-0655/>. Thanks for considering the potential for confusion with Optional during the design and recommending best practices in the “how to teach” section. A couple SC members have tried using TypedDict and found it painful, this PEP helps. -gps for the steering council