I have a Pydantic class to represent how my general API response should look: class RootDataResponseSchema(BaseModel): status: Literal["success", "fail"] data: BaseModel I went with BaseModel for data, as the idea would be I'd subclass RootDataResponseSchema and add more specificity to specific endpoint responses, such as: class NewItemResponse(RootDataResponseSchema): status: Literal["success"] = "success" data: NewItemResponseData The problem I've run into seems to only affect the IDE (in my case VSCode), so I assume is a notice from pylance, but tells me that both status and data have changed from the root class. It does mention it's irrelevant, but as a subclassed object does count as the superclass in terms of comparison, is there a mechanism for narrowing the scope of type hints in Python? Or is this just an artifact of loosely typed Python? Continue reading...
