@Guido van Rossum: Yes, GH-27017 is the same as #41249 in the initial post. There are also some cases where we don't even have a ForwardRef though:

foo.py:
```
import typing

FooType: typing.TypeAlias = "Foo"

class Foo:
    pass

```

bar.py:
```
import typing
import foo

def func3(x: foo.FooType):
    pass

print(typing.get_type_hints(func3))  # NameError: name 'Foo' is not defined.

```

In this example, `FooType` is just a regular str (with unknown origin). That's a case where get_type_hints just needs to give up?