[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

Change by Alex Waygood : -- nosy: +AlexWaygood nosy_count: 5.0 -> 6.0 pull_requests: +27583 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29308 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

Ken Jin added the comment: I concur with Guido to close this. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

Guido van Rossum added the comment: Let’s just close this, there are more important things to do. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

jack1142 added the comment: I was thinking that this could be the case but if I'm not mistaken, there's actually quite a lot of types in this list that aren't collections (awaitable, coroutine, iterable, iterator, generator, the async versions of those, callable, *hmm, are views

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

Guido van Rossum added the comment: I think the difference between the two lists is that not every generic type is a collection. If we apply that standard, I think the contextlib and re classes need to be *removed* from the list (did I get that right?). --

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

Ken Jin added the comment: Dear Jack, good catch! My only worry is that if we make the list exhaustive, it would be too lengthy, or that it might not be feasible to continuously update it every time a new generic type supports the feature. Maybe a line somewhere to mention that most

[issue42280] The list of standard generic collections is incomplete

New submission from jack1142 : It looks like the documentation lists standard library collections that support parameterized generics[1] however, it seems to only feature a part of all the collections that support parametrizing (I'm going by the list that was produced by Ethan Smith[2], it