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Recursive type annotations

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class Test:
    def test(self, child : Test):
        pass

NameError: name 'Test' is not defined

I understand that the class "Test" is not defined until the class
definition is executed. But it is very very common to build recursive
data structures, and I have concrete use case where the IDE did not
recognize the type of the argument, and as a result it forgot to rename
some method calls when I auto-refactored the name of the method.

I'm not an expert, but I believe that these annotations are not used by
the byte compiler for anything. This is just pure syntax introduced for
the person who reads the code.

Is there a known obsticle that would prevent us from detecting recursive
type annotations? (E.g. bind the annotation to the class that is being
defined.)

Thanks,

   Laszlo

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Recursive type annotations Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-08 15:02 +0200
  Re: Recursive type annotations Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-06-08 13:11 +0000
    Re: Recursive type annotations Nagy László Zsolt <gandalf@shopzeus.com> - 2016-06-08 15:31 +0200
    Re: Recursive type annotations Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-06-08 08:58 -0600

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