Pycharm: Type hint list of items

Question

My question is different because I made a mistake using type hint.

I found a weird type hinging in pycharm:

Example is my own class. But I guess this is less important because the IDE is complaining about list type does not define __getitem__ method which is no true. I'm wondering if it's a bug or I used it in a wrong way.

Answer 1

According to official PEP to denote list of objects you should use typing.List, not list builtin.

from typing import List


class Something:
    pass


def f(seq: List[Something]):  # no warning
    for o in seq:
        print(o)

Update January 2021:

Please note that built-in generics were implemented in Python 3.9, as described in PEP585.

Answer 2

Łukasz explained how to correct your code. I'll explain why the error message says what it does.

list defines __getitem__, true, but that isn't what the error message is complaining about. The error message is saying that type itself, which is the list type's type, doesn't support __getitem__. For list[whatever] to be valid, type would have to define a __getitem__ method, not list.