[Python] (Python type hints) How to specify type being currently defined as the returned type...

I would like to specify (as a type hint) the currently defined type as the return type from a method.

Here's an example:

class Action(Enum):
ignore = 0
replace = 1
delete = 2

@classmethod
# I would like something like
# def idToObj(cls, elmId: int)->Action:
# but I cannot specify Action as the return type
# since it would generate the error
# NameError: name 'Action' is not defined
def idToObj(cls, elmId: int):
if not hasattr(cls, '_idToObjDict'):
cls._idToObjDict = {}
for elm in list(cls):
cls._idToObjDict[elm.value] = elm

return cls._idToObjDict[elmId]


Ideally I would have liked to specify something like

def idToObj(cls, elmId: int)->Action:


Thank you.

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