I certainly wouldn't want to keep `from __future__ import annotations` in
the language forever if Larry's PEP is accepted.

Of course you can still use explicit string literals in annotations.

Your observation about the @dataclass decorator is significant. Thanks for
that.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:36 AM Joseph Perez <jope...@hotmail.fr> wrote:

> PEP 649 doesn't prevent to use stringified annotations (Larry has
> previously mentioned it in its response to Paul Bryan), and they seem to be
> still required when `if TYPE_CHECKING:` is used, despite the PEP claim.
>
> And my last message bring some use cases where strings are also required
> (notably, in recursive dataclasses).
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