[issue39442] from __future__ import annotations makes dataclasses.Field.type a string, not type

[Dave Tapley]

Dave Tapley <dave at tapley.com> added the comment:

I don't know if it helps, but I just ran in to this when I followed the advice at (1) because I wanted to type hint a method with the type of the enclosing class.

This broke a package I'm working on in parallel (2) because it uses dataclasses.fields internally.

I'm not sure what the advice would be here, should my package detect if the caller has `from __future__ import annotations` and do something?



(1) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33533148/how-do-i-type-hint-a-method-with-the-type-of-the-enclosing-class/33533514#33533514
(2) https://pypi.org/project/dataclasses-configobj/

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