Why do we have Literal type in the typing module? I sure can use them as types to indicate to the user "these are your only options”?
> On 6 Feb 2022, at 2:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > he bottom line here is that we cannot use literals as types because > they aren't types, they are values, and the semantics of operations on > types and operations on values are different.
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