[Python] Are there any drawbacks to assigning `__slots__` from `__annotations__` in a Python...

With Python's type annotations, classes that declare __slots__ often end up duplicating the class identifiers.

A brief example:

class Event:
location: tuple[float, float]
index: int

__slots__ = (
"location",
"index",
)


An alternative to this is to use annotations to declare slots.

class Event:
location: tuple[float, float]
index: int

__slots__ = tuple(__annotations__)


Is there any reasons to avoid deriving __slots__ from __annotations__ in Python 3.10 & newer?

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