From 9ffe582a018a2babd14e874ae2b169370633fe33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 11:29:59 -0700 Subject: bpo-44926: `get_type_hints`: Add note about type aliases with forward refs (GH-27859) (GH-27860) (cherry picked from commit 16b9be4861e007ad483611ba0479feb2b90ea783) Co-authored-by: Maximilian Hils --- Doc/library/typing.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst index e8d7c9e..47d6c3a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/typing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst @@ -2013,6 +2013,13 @@ Introspection helpers 'name': Annotated[str, 'some marker'] } + .. note:: + + :func:`get_type_hints` does not work with imported + :ref:`type aliases ` that include forward references. + Enabling postponed evaluation of annotations (:pep:`563`) may remove + the need for most forward references. + .. versionchanged:: 3.9 Added ``include_extras`` parameter as part of :pep:`593`. -- cgit v0.12