add static typing for _midlSAFEARRAY
#580
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Thanks to @geppi’s contribution, I’ve come to understand the behavior of
SAFEARRAY
and_midlSAFEARRAY
.I realized that
_midlSAFEARRAY
is a factory function that generates a new class, something that cannot be expressed in Python’s usual static type system.Therefore, I added the
LP_SAFEARRAY
special typing symbol intohints
.Of course, it is not possible to express all runtime behaviors in the current stub, but since
create
andunpack
will no longer result in static type errors, it should reduce noise during coding.