Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment:
> Would not be better to make MyPy supporting type(Ellipsis)? It would work > also on Python versions older than 3.10. That would be quite complicated. There is no place in annotations where a function call is currently supported, so I'd prefer not to go there. > Also, could not Literal[Ellipsis] be used as annotation? Alas, it currently doesn't work (PEP 586 only allows specific types, and type checkers have implemented it exactly). Making it work would be more complicated than the proposal -- once it exists in types.py, it's trivial to add support to mypy. IMO ideally, eventually, all "hidden" built-in types ought to be exposed somewhere, unless they are truly implementation details -- but since Ellipsis is a first-class singleton object, I don't see how its type could be an implementation detail. (Its name is actually clearly visible in repr(type(Ellipsis)).) Note that we have started exporting the types of other constructs through types.py, e.g. type(int|str) is types.Union, and type(list[str]) is types.GenericAlias. This is revealed in their repr(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41810> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
