Burakov, Anatoly, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:12:
> FYI: if we change the minimum supported python version to 3.9, we could > even get rid of this import completely as builtin types `set`, `list`, > `tuple` and `dict` have become subscriptable. > > https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/ > > You can use them directly instead of the symbols defined in the typing > module. E.g. the following becomes valid syntax: > > def foo(a: list[set[int]]) -> dict[str, tuple[str]]: > > Instead of the more verbose: > > def foo(a: T.List[T.Set[int]]) -> T.Dict[str, T.Tuple[str]]: > > But we can keep that for another day. > Incidentally, `dpdk-pmdinfo.py` script does use this syntax already. So either our minimum Python requirement is already met for this, or pmdinfo needs to be fixed to avoid it.
I checked and unless I missed something, dpdk-pmdinfo.py uses the symbols from the typing module for annotations. Not builtin container types.
But I think that we should bump the minimum python version to 3.9. 3.6 is really old...
