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Title: Inferred Optional type of wrapper function arguments
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Assigned To: Nosy List: joperez
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Created on 2021-01-13 07:48 by joperez, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin.

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msg385005 - (view) Author: Joseph Perez (joperez) * Date: 2021-01-13 07:48
`typing.get_type_hints` gives a different result for a wrapper created with `functools.wraps` in case of inferred `Optional` arguments (when the default value of the argument is None)

```python
from functools import wraps
from typing import get_type_hints

def foo(bar: int = None): ...

@wraps(foo)
def foo2(*args, **kwargs): ...

print(get_type_hints(foo))  # {'bar': typing.Optional[int]}
print(get_type_hints(foo2))  # {'bar': <class 'int'>}
```

This is because `get_type_hints` use the defauts of the wrapper (`foo2`) and not those of the wrapped function (`foo`).
This is not consistent with some other tools like `inspect.signature` which gives the same signature (and thus same default argument) for the wrapped function and its wrapper.

I think this case has simply been forgotten in the resolution of https://bugs.python.org/issue37838 (fixing `get_type_hints` not taking `wraps` in account at all), because inferred `Optional` is a kind deprecated feature (https://github.com/python/typing/issues/275).
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2022-04-11 14:59:40adminsetgithub: 87087
2021-01-13 07:48:07joperezcreate