[Python-checkins] [3.11] gh-104010: Separate and improve docs for `typing.get_origin` and `typing.get_args` (GH-104013) (#104359)

[JelleZijlstra]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a8e902d2c2e90255c838bd99e833cef2c674c1f0
commit: a8e902d2c2e90255c838bd99e833cef2c674c1f0
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: JelleZijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com>
date: 2023-05-10T07:49:49-07:00
summary:

[3.11] gh-104010: Separate and improve docs for `typing.get_origin` and `typing.get_args` (GH-104013) (#104359)

* separate documentation and examples for both functions
* add examples demonstrating behaviour with unsupported types
* document return value of `get_origin` for `ParamSpecArgs` and `ParamSpecKwargs` instances

(cherry picked from commit a7a2dbbf72aceef61bfb50901bfa39bfb8d6d229)

Co-authored-by: chgnrdv <52372310+chgnrdv at users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/typing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index 2a53df4b746d..a99a35a7664f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -2790,24 +2790,37 @@ Introspection helpers
       if a default value equal to ``None`` was set.
       Now the annotation is returned unchanged.
 
-.. function:: get_args(tp)
 .. function:: get_origin(tp)
 
-   Provide basic introspection for generic types and special typing forms.
-
-   For a typing object of the form ``X[Y, Z, ...]`` these functions return
-   ``X`` and ``(Y, Z, ...)``. If ``X`` is a generic alias for a builtin or
+   Get the unsubscripted version of a type: for a typing object of the form
+   ``X[Y, Z, ...]`` return ``X``. If ``X`` is a generic alias for a builtin or
    :mod:`collections` class, it gets normalized to the original class.
+   If ``X`` is an instance of :class:`ParamSpecArgs` or :class:`ParamSpecKwargs`,
+   return the underlying :class:`ParamSpec`.
+   Return ``None`` for unsupported objects.
+   Examples::
+
+      assert get_origin(str) is None
+      assert get_origin(Dict[str, int]) is dict
+      assert get_origin(Union[int, str]) is Union
+      P = ParamSpec('P')
+      assert get_origin(P.args) is P
+      assert get_origin(P.kwargs) is P
+
+   .. versionadded:: 3.8
+
+.. function:: get_args(tp)
+
+   Get type arguments with all substitutions performed: for a typing object
+   of the form ``X[Y, Z, ...]`` return ``(Y, Z, ...)``.
    If ``X`` is a union or :class:`Literal` contained in another
    generic type, the order of ``(Y, Z, ...)`` may be different from the order
    of the original arguments ``[Y, Z, ...]`` due to type caching.
-   For unsupported objects return ``None`` and ``()`` correspondingly.
+   Return ``()`` for unsupported objects.
    Examples::
 
-      assert get_origin(Dict[str, int]) is dict
+      assert get_args(int) == ()
       assert get_args(Dict[int, str]) == (int, str)
-
-      assert get_origin(Union[int, str]) is Union
       assert get_args(Union[int, str]) == (int, str)
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.8