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Return types annotations when

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql, python
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by tracing the public asyncpg.connect entry point and the connection object's cursor method, then inspect how their return types are exposed to Python type checkers. Done means those calls no longer appear as None in the example while preserving the existing API behavior.

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Description

conn = await asyncpg.connect(
    user=os.getenv("DB_USER"),
    password=os.getenv("DB_USER_PASSWORD"),
    database=os.getenv("DB_NAME"),
    host=os.getenv("DB_HOST")
)  # None type

conn.cursor()  # None type
Dominant language
Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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