refactor: Use Parameter class directly in type hints instead of _Parameter protocol #3405
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Turns out I was wrong in #3208 (comment) which is nice in this case :) We can use the
Parameter
class directly in type hints without running into circular imports thanks totyping.TYPE_CHECKING
. See https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/runtime_troubles.html#import-cycles for more details but in summary, type checkers can be much more flexible how they import stuff as they don't run actual code so they can also deal with circular imports.There is no impact for users except that instead of
_Parameter
as type hints:they now see the less confusing
Parameter
: