# Documentation Metadata in Typing
+## Note: PEP 727
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+This is the initial/previous version of [PEP 727](https://peps.python.org/pep-0727/).
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+The continuation and evolution of this document and proposal will continue there.
+
## Abstract
This document proposes a way to complement docstrings to add additional documentation to Python symbols using type annotations with `Annotated` (in class attributes, function and method parameters, return values, and variables).
## Alternate Form
-Part of the formalization of this document includes writing a PEP and adding this to `typing_extensions`. That is currently an ongoing effort.
+Part of the formalization of this document includes writing [PEP 727](https://peps.python.org/pep-0727/) and adding this to `typing_extensions`. That is currently an ongoing effort.
By including it in `typing_extensions`, it will be usable by current versions of Python, even before this proposal is accepted and included into the Python standard library in a future version of Python (if it is ever accepted).
-To avoid delaying adoption, the `doc` function and `DocInfo` class are (at least temporarily) already available in [annotated-types](https://github.com/annotated-types/annotated-types).
+It will also be included in the next release of [annotated-types](https://github.com/annotated-types/annotated-types), in case that is available before it is in `typing_extensions`.
Early adopters can install `annotated-types` and do: