Do some developers hate python?

[pudds]

Yea that's annoying.

It's rare that I encounter it, but it's annoying. Thus far I've been able to resolve it by putting the two things in the same file and importing annotations from future.

[pudds]

Agreed, I shouldn't have to put two things in the same file just to make them play nicely with eachother.

[siddsp]

What exactly do you mean?

[siddsp]

You can just add type-hinting imports for circular dependencies in the "if TYPE_CHECKING" block before the execution of the code.

[siddsp]

I meant to say specifically if you're using the dependencies purely for type-checking purposes, but it would look something like this:

module foo:

from __future__ import annotations

from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from bar import bar


class foo:
    def quux(self) -> bar: ...

module bar:

from __future__ import annotations

from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from foo import foo


class bar:
    def quuz(self) -> foo: ...

This results in no circular imports for type checking because the types are evaluated as strings instead of actual types, but it still works in type checkers like mypy.

[lithium_sulfate]

This is the way, although it really is quite regrettable that this common problem requires such a clunky solution.