[Python-ideas] Adding Type[C] support to PEP 484 and typing.py

[Matthias Kramm]

On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 11:50:32 AM UTC-7, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> There's one new feature I'd like to add to PEP 484 and the typing.py 
> module that will go out with Python 3.5.2.
>
> There's a long discssion in https://github.com/python/typing/issues/107, 
> but I think I can explain the proposal very quickly.
>
> There's currently no good way to talk about class objects. If you have a 
> function argument that's a class (as opposed to an instance) the only 
> annotation you can give it is `type`. But I've encountered this pattern 
> quite frequently, and what people invariably want to say is "it's a 
> subclass of this here class C."
>

I like it. I have wanted "Type[C]" many times, in pytype's output.

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