Support for generic TypedDict

[dgoldstein0]

R = TypeVar("R")
FileCachedData = TypedDict('FileCachedData', {'mtime': float, 'size': int, 'value': R})

mypy complains about R in the TypedDict declaration. I would expect that I could declare a generic TypedDict like this.

[gvanrossum]

Generic TypedDicts are not supported yet. (Though if there were, this would be a reasonable notations -- after all this is how you declare generic aliases.)

[dgoldstein0]

Well then, consider this a feature request.

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[gwax]

To add a justification note, this feature would be useful for handling polymorphic JSON responses, such as a shared pager:

class Item(TypedDict):
    type: str

class ValueItem(Item):
    value: int

T = TypeVar('T', bound=Item)

class ItemPager(TypedDict, Generic[T]):
    next_page: Optional[str]
    items: List[T]

def get_value_items() -> List[ValueItem]:
    value_items: List[ValueItem] = []
    url = "https://example.com/value_items"
    while url:
        response = requests.get(url)
        pager: ItemPager[ValueItem] = response.json()
        url = pager['next_page']
        value_items += pager['items']
    return value_items

[pawelrubin]

Hi!
Are Generic TypedDicts/NamedTuples planned to be supported in the future versions of Python/mypy?
As @gwax mentioned, they would be super useful for annotating polymorphic JSON responses.

[gvanrossum]

I suggest filing a bpo issue for that.

[peterschutt]

@pawelrubin was a bpo issue created for this?

[AlexWaygood]

There's now a BPO issue for this here

[graingert]

See also python/typing_extensions#7

[AlexWaygood]

See also python/typing_extensions#7

To expand on this: generic TypedDicts are now supported by the runtime in Python 3.11, and this new functionality will hopefully soon be backported to earlier Python versions via typing_extensions. mypy support for generic TypedDicts is still missing, however.

[JelleZijlstra]

We likely won't add this support to mypy-extensions. Retitling this to reflect the request that mypy adds support for generic TypedDicts in general.

[AlexWaygood]

@JelleZijlstra, could you add a link to this issue in #11753?