Multipart encoder produces type errors when using pylance language server

[Serhiy1]

To reproduce

1. Setup visual studio code and install the python extension
2. Enable type hinting by adding "python.analysis.typeCheckingMode": "basic", To settings.json
3. Copy and paste the example from the docstring into a file

import requests
from requests_toolbelt.multipart.encoder import MultipartEncoder


encoder = MultipartEncoder({'field': 'value',
                             'other_field': 'other_value'})
r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data=encoder,
                    headers={'Content-Type': encoder.content_type})

4. A typing error that is thrown

Argument of type "MultipartEncoder" cannot be assigned to parameter "data" of type "_Data" in function "post"
  Type "MultipartEncoder" cannot be assigned to type "_Data"
    Type cannot be assigned to type "None"
    "MultipartEncoder" is incompatible with "Text"
    "MultipartEncoder" is incompatible with "bytes"
    "MultipartEncoder" is incompatible with "Mapping[str, Any]"
    "__iter__" is not present
    "MultipartEncoder" is incompatible with "IO[Any]"PylancereportGeneralTypeIssues

5. The current workaround is to add a # Type: ignore comment

r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data=encoder,     #type:ignore
                    headers={'Content-Type': encoder.content_type})

[sigmavirus24]

This library has existed long before PEP 485 and those errors are not a priority for us to fix as they do not break and things work as they should. Further the annotations for requests are notoriously wrong

[Serhiy1]

Low priority is no problem, I understand that this isn't a run time issue and if you ignore the warning everything works.

I'm Just reporting a user experience that initially very confusing and making a workaround publically available for anyone who is in a similar situation.

[sigmavirus24]

To be clear, images are:

• not searchable
• not readable for visually impaired users
• not a solution

You'd do better for others (assuming a type error in this scenario is actually confusing for them) by pasting actual text that a search on Google or GitHub could find

[Serhiy1]

Fair point, the report has been updated.