typing.Annotated cannot wrap typing.ParamSpec args/kwargs

[GBeauregard]

BPO	46643
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @serhiy-storchaka, @JelleZijlstra, @miss-islington, @sobolevn, @Fidget-Spinner, @AlexWaygood, @GBeauregard
PRs	bpo-46643: Fix stringized P.args/P.kwargs with get_type_hints #31238 [3.10] bpo-46643: Fix stringized P.args/P.kwargs with get_type_hints (GH-31238) #31646 bpo-46643: fix NEWS entry #31651

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title = 'typing.Annotated cannot wrap typing.ParamSpec args/kwargs'
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[GBeauregard]

Consider the following.

import logging
from typing import Annotated, Callable, ParamSpec, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")
P = ParamSpec("P")

def add_logging(f: Callable[P, T]) -> Callable[P, T]:
    """A type-safe decorator to add logging to a function."""
    def inner(*args: Annotated[P.args, "meta"], **kwargs: P.kwargs) -> T:
        logging.info(f"{f.__name__} was called")
        return f(*args, **kwargs)
    return inner

@add_logging
def add_two(x: float, y: float) -> float:
    """Add two numbers together."""
    return x + y

This raises an error at runtime because P.args/P.kwargs cannot pass the typing._type_check called by Annotated because they are not callable(). This prevents being able to use Annotated on these type annotations.

This can be fixed by adding __call__ methods that raise to typing.ParamSpecArgs and typing.ParamSpecKwargs to match other typeforms.

I can write this patch given agreement

[GBeauregard]

We can also fix this with my proposal in bpo-46644. I'm okay with either fix (that or implementing __call__), or both.

[serhiy-storchaka]

Should it? Annotated wraps types, and P.args/P.kwargs are not types.

If make Annotated accepting P.args/P.kwargs (and possible other non-types, e.g. P), it is a new feature which should be publicly discussed first and documented. I do not thing it requires a PEP.

[GBeauregard]

My general understanding has been that since Annotated exists primarily to allow interoperability between typing and non-typing uses of annotation space, and that this is quite clear in the PEP, most cases where this is not allowed (especially at the top level of the annotation, as in this case) are either a bug or unintentional. We fixed Annotated wrapping Final and ClassVar a couple weeks ago for arguments sorta along these lines after discussion on typing-sig, where the concern of what constitutes a type to wrap was specifically addressed: https://bugs.python.org/issue46491

But, I am not opposed to discussing this case too, or discussing the issue more broadly. Is typing-sig the appropriate place for me to make a thread, or do we wait for comments here? Even if we decide this particular issue is okay to fix, I think you bring up a good point about documenting our decision clearly once and for all so I agree we should do this.

[GBeauregard]

I have made a thread on typing-sig to discuss this: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/typing-sig@python.org/thread/WZ4BCFO4VZ7U4CZ4FSDQNFAKPG2KOGCL/