[aw1621107]

I want to say it (or something similar at least) was originally addressed by from __future__ import annotations back in Python 3.7/3.8 or thereabouts? I definitely remember having to use stringified types a while back but I haven't needed to for quite a while now.

[sgarland]

Yes, annotations allows you to use the declared types as they are, no strings.

[FreakLegion]

It turns them into thunks (formerly strings) automatically, an important detail if you're inspecting annotations at run time because the performance hit of resolving the actual type can be significant.

[sgarland]

TIL, thanks! It looks like 3.14 is also changing it so that all evaluations are lazy.