Mypy: Using unions in mapping types does not work as expected

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  • mypy

    Optional static typing for Python

    If you typed it as Mapping instead of dict then it would be theoretically be type safe but its actually not supported. See mypy issue #1114. Only the value type is covariant for now.

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