This is an old feature request that appears from time to time. After a year of experimenting with various introspection capabilities in `typing_inspect` on PyPI, I propose to add these two most commonly used functions: `get_origin()` and `get_args()`. These are essentially thin public wrappers around private APIs: `__origin__` and `__args__`.
As discussed in the issue and on the typing tracker, exposing some public helpers instead of `__origin__` and `__args__` directly will give us more flexibility if we will decide to update the internal representation, while still maintaining backwards compatibility.
The implementation is very simple an is essentially a copy from `typing_inspect` with one exception: `ClassVar` was special-cased in `typing_inspect`, but I think this special-casing doesn't really help and only makes things more complicated.
I tried to get rid of the `_ProtocolMeta`, but unfortunately it didn'y work. My idea to return a generic alias from `@runtime_checkable` made runtime protocols unpickleable. I am not sure what is worse (a custom metaclass or having some classes unpickleable), so I decided to stick with the status quo (since there were no complains so far). So essentially this is a copy of the implementation in `typing_extensions` with two modifications:
* Rename `@runtime` to `@runtime_checkable` (plus corresponding updates).
* Allow protocols that extend `collections.abc.Iterable` etc.
The implementation is straightforward, it just mimics `ClassVar` (since the latter is also a name/access qualifier, not really a type). Also it is essentially copied from `typing_extensions`.
In order to support typing checks calling hex(), oct() and bin() on user-defined classes, a SupportIndex protocol is required. The ability to check these at runtime would be good to add for completeness sake. This is pretty much just a copy of SupportsInt with the names tweaked.
* Replace external recipe link with a link to the dataclasses module.
* Highlight the class definition syntax for typing.NamedTuple
and add an example for clarity.
Currently, the docs state that when doing `Type[X]`, X is only allowed to
be a class, a union of classes, and Any. This pull request amends
that sentence to clarify X may also be a typevar (or a union involving
classes, Any, and TypeVars).
* Fix PEP 8 (SomeType instead of some_type)
* Add a function parameter annotation
* Explain, using wording from PEP 484 and PEP 526,
why one annotation is in quotes and another is not.
Suggested by Ivan Levkevskyi.
Ivan Levkivskyi
Anthony Sottile
Paul Dagnelie
cocoatomo
Sebastian Rittau
Raymond Hettinger
Jack Wilsdon
Ville Skyttä
Boštjan Mejak
Ismo Toijala
Stéphane Wirtel
Michael Lee
Travis DePrato
Sebastian Rittau
Éric Araujo
topper-123
khyox
Mathias Rav
Jelle Zijlstra
Mariatta
Berker Peksag
Raymond Hettinger
Ned Deily
Guido van Rossum
Serhiy Storchaka