Typing Number, PyCharm

[Paul Bryan]

On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 12:11 +0000, Weatherby,Gerard wrote:

> On the one hand, it is a well-known type, so it should be
> recognizable to users of an API. On the other hand, Number is
> entirely abstract, so it doesn’t provide useful type checking for the
> implementation; I had to add # noinspection PyTypeChecker to 2 *
> value to keep PyCharm from complaining. Additionally, it does not
> include the Decimal type.

Hmm...

Python 3.10.9 (main, Dec 19 2022, 17:35:49) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux
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>>> from numbers import Number
>>> from decimal import Decimal as D
>>> isinstance(D("1.0"), Number)
True