[issue39866] get_type_hints raises inconsistent TypeError

Guido van Rossum added the comment: It should definitely not return {} for objects without __annotations__ attributes -- get_type_hints(42) should raise TypeError. One could argue that get_type_hints(Bar()) incorrectly returns a dict, but we want to allow for some duck typing here, and,

[issue39866] get_type_hints raises inconsistent TypeError

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[issue39866] get_type_hints raises inconsistent TypeError

New submission from Joey : If you pass in an instance of an object without type annotations, you get an error that states "XXX is not a module, class, method, or function." This correctly describes the situation  typing.get_type_hints(object()) Traceback (most recent call last): File "",