[issue45380] help() appears confused about the module of typing.Annotated

Guido van Rossum added the comment: It looks like __metadata__ was *meant* to be a public attribute, but somehow overseen when the PEP and docs were written. :-( I don't know anything about this class, really. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45380] help() appears confused about the module of typing.Annotated

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[issue45380] help() appears confused about the module of typing.Annotated

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[issue45380] help() appears confused about the module of typing.Annotated

Alex Waygood added the comment: It actually appears as though there is no documented way to retrieve the metadata from an annotated alias. Is this intentional? The metadata is stored in a `__metadata__` attribute of a `typing._AnnotatedAlias` instance. But the `__metadata__` attribute is un

[issue45380] help() appears confused about the module of typing.Annotated

New submission from Alex Waygood : `help()` appears confused about the module of `typing.Annotated`. If you call `help()` on a parameterised "instance" of `typing.Annotated`, it will claim that `Annotated` belongs to whatever module the annotated type is from. Additionally, `help()` appears n