Type hints - am I doing it right?

[Thomas Passin]

On 12/13/2023 11:17 AM, Mats Wichmann via Python-list wrote:
> On 12/13/23 00:19, Frank Millman via Python-list wrote:
> 
>> I have to add 'import configparser' at the top of each of these 
>> modules in order to type hint the method.
>>
>> This seems verbose. If it is the correct way of doing it I can live 
>> with it, but I wondered if there was an easier way.
> 
> Think of import as meaning "make this available in my current (module) 
> namespace".
> 
> The actual import machinery only runs the first time, that is, if it's 
> not already present in the sys.modules dict.

There's also the approach of importing the typing objects conditionally, 
as in this snippet from the Leo Editor 
(https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor)

if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover
     from leo.core.leoCommands import Commands as Cmdr
     from leo.core.leoGui import LeoKeyEvent as Event

Yes, it's more verbose but it makes clear what the intent is.