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This was something that was in vogue in the mid / late 2000s, then Haskell became the cool kid language and types are back.

The thing that drives me crazy about Python typing is that I need to import stuff to make full use of the type system. Like I get that the typing is option because that would be a huge language overhaul, but it feels weird that so many tools get hidden inside libraries (standing or otherwise).

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AFAIK, you only need to import the actual types that you're using (`from typing import List, Iterable, Optional, ...`). What else is there?

In newer Python versions, you don't need most of those imports either:

  foo: list[str] = ["a"]
  bar: int | None = 1

Yeah, but that's completely unnecessary friction.

Granted - but the original claim was that "it feels weird that so many tools get hidden inside libraries", and I'm asking for an example of more than one of these "so many".

But why do we have to import any? They should be part of the core language by now. The lack of boldness of Python core developers is sometimes very annoying.

Most of it is part of the core language now.

Yep the only one I've found myself importing as of late is Any.

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