From d3bd245c732339fdcc050dd5c9dc070f96767075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:59:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [3.14] gh-86139: Correct NamedTuple and TypedDict's type in typing.rst (GH-143692) (#143696) Co-authored-by: AN Long Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood --- Doc/library/typing.rst | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst index 360a0af0ee4e..c5e8af0b5a4a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/typing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst @@ -2355,7 +2355,7 @@ These functions and classes should not be used directly as annotations. Their intended purpose is to be building blocks for creating and declaring types. -.. class:: NamedTuple +.. function:: NamedTuple Typed version of :func:`collections.namedtuple`. @@ -2428,6 +2428,10 @@ types. Removed the ``_field_types`` attribute in favor of the more standard ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same information. + .. versionchanged:: 3.9 + ``NamedTuple`` is now a function rather than a class. + It can still be used as a class base, as described above. + .. versionchanged:: 3.11 Added support for generic namedtuples. @@ -2584,10 +2588,10 @@ types. for more details. -.. class:: TypedDict(dict) +.. function:: TypedDict Special construct to add type hints to a dictionary. - At runtime it is a plain :class:`dict`. + At runtime ":class:`!TypedDict` instances" are simply :class:`dicts `. ``TypedDict`` declares a dictionary type that expects all of its instances to have a certain set of keys, where each key is @@ -2810,6 +2814,10 @@ types. .. versionadded:: 3.8 + .. versionchanged:: 3.9 + ``TypedDict`` is now a function rather than a class. + It can still be used as a class base, as described above. + .. versionchanged:: 3.11 Added support for marking individual keys as :data:`Required` or :data:`NotRequired`. See :pep:`655`. -- 2.47.3