bpo-38431: Fix __repr__ method of InitVar to work with typing objects. (GH-16702)
(cherry picked from commit 793cb85437299a3da3d74fe65480d720af330cbb)
Co-authored-by: Samuel Colvin <samcolvin@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/dataclasses.py b/Lib/dataclasses.py
index 2f0e5ff..391f32e 100644
--- a/Lib/dataclasses.py
+++ b/Lib/dataclasses.py
@@ -210,7 +210,12 @@
self.type = type
def __repr__(self):
- return f'dataclasses.InitVar[{self.type.__name__}]'
+ if isinstance(self.type, type):
+ type_name = self.type.__name__
+ else:
+ # typing objects, e.g. List[int]
+ type_name = repr(self.type)
+ return f'dataclasses.InitVar[{type_name}]'
# Instances of Field are only ever created from within this module,