From 46b963509d756d0a14c5b3e31e4576b4f4c6c06c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: GBeauregard <greg@greg.red>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:33:44 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix stringized P.args/P.kwargs with get_type_hints

---
 Lib/test/test_typing.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 Lib/typing.py           |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_typing.py b/Lib/test/test_typing.py
index 6e2a2b1978ab40..4356afd93f16f4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_typing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_typing.py
@@ -5004,6 +5004,18 @@ def test_args_kwargs(self):
         self.assertEqual(repr(P.args), "P.args")
         self.assertEqual(repr(P.kwargs), "P.kwargs")
 
+    def test_stringized(self):
+        P = ParamSpec('P')
+        class C(Generic[P]):
+            func: Callable["P", int]
+            def foo(self, *args: "P.args", **kwargs: "P.kwargs"):
+                pass
+
+        self.assertEqual(gth(C, globals(), locals()), {"func": Callable[P, int]})
+        self.assertEqual(
+            gth(C.foo, globals(), locals()), {"args": P.args, "kwargs": P.kwargs}
+        )
+
     def test_user_generics(self):
         T = TypeVar("T")
         P = ParamSpec("P")
diff --git a/Lib/typing.py b/Lib/typing.py
index 1de48cca00d84c..b71a864d1ebe94 100644
--- a/Lib/typing.py
+++ b/Lib/typing.py
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ def _type_check(arg, msg, is_argument=True, module=None, *, allow_special_forms=
         return arg
     if isinstance(arg, _SpecialForm) or arg in (Generic, Protocol):
         raise TypeError(f"Plain {arg} is not valid as type argument")
-    if isinstance(arg, (type, TypeVar, ForwardRef, types.UnionType, ParamSpec)):
+    if isinstance(arg, (type, TypeVar, ForwardRef, types.UnionType, ParamSpec,
+                        ParamSpecArgs, ParamSpecKwargs)):
         return arg
     if not callable(arg):
         raise TypeError(f"{msg} Got {arg!r:.100}.")

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 .../NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-09-22-40-11.bpo-46643.aBlIx1.rst | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-09-22-40-11.bpo-46643.aBlIx1.rst

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-09-22-40-11.bpo-46643.aBlIx1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-09-22-40-11.bpo-46643.aBlIx1.rst
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index 00000000000000..e8b4d66e943f68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-02-09-22-40-11.bpo-46643.aBlIx1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+In :func:`typing.get_type_hints`, support evaluating stringified ``ParamSpecArgs`` and ``ParamSpecKwargs`` annotations. Patch by Gregory Beauregard.
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