# typing --- Support for type hints — Annotating generators and coroutines

> A generator can be annotated using the generic type Generator[YieldType, SendType, ReturnType] .

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A generator can be annotated using the generic type Generator[YieldType, SendType, ReturnType] . For example

def echo_round() -&gt; Generator[int, float, str]: sent = yield 0 while sent &gt;= 0: sent = yield round(sent) return 'Done'

Note that unlike many other generic classes in the standard library, the SendType of ~collections.abc.Generator behaves contravariantly, not covariantly or invariantly.

The SendType and ReturnType parameters default to !None

def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; Generator[int]: while True: yield start start += 1

It is also possible to set these types explicitly

def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; Generator[int, None, None]: while True: yield start start += 1

Simple generators that only ever yield values can also be annotated as having a return type of either Iterable[YieldType] or Iterator[YieldType]

def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; Iterator[int]: while True: yield start start += 1

Async generators are handled in a similar fashion, but don't expect a ReturnType type argument (AsyncGenerator[YieldType, SendType] ). The SendType argument defaults to !None, so the following definitions are equivalent

async def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; AsyncGenerator[int]: while True: yield start start = await increment(start)

async def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; AsyncGenerator[int, None]: while True: yield start start = await increment(start)

As in the synchronous case, AsyncIterable[YieldType] and AsyncIterator[YieldType] are available as well

async def infinite_stream(start: int) -&gt; AsyncIterator[int]: while True: yield start start = await increment(start)

Coroutines can be annotated using Coroutine[YieldType, SendType, ReturnType] . Generic arguments correspond to those of ~collections.abc.Generator, for example

from collections.abc import Coroutine c: Coroutine[list[str], str, int] # Some coroutine defined elsewhere x = c.send('hi') # Inferred type of 'x' is list[str] async def bar() -&gt; None: y = await c # Inferred type of 'y' is int

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