[3.14] pythongh-132493: Remove __annotations__ usage in inspect._signature_is_functionlike (pythonGH-133415) (python#133796)

pythongh-132493: Remove __annotations__ usage in inspect._signature_is_functionlike (pythonGH-133415)

This check is potentially problematic because it could force evaluation of
annotations unnecessarily. This doesn't trigger for builtin objects (functions,
classes, or modules) with annotations, but it could trigger for third-party objects.

The check was not particularly useful anyway, because it succeeds if ``__annotations__``
is a dict or None, so the only thing this did was guard against objects that have an
``__annotations__`` attribute that is of some other type. That doesn't seem particularly
useful, so I just removed the check.
(cherry picked from commit cb6596c)

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/inspect.py

@@ -2074,13 +2074,11 @@ def _signature_is_functionlike(obj):
     code = getattr(obj, '__code__', None)
     defaults = getattr(obj, '__defaults__', _void) # Important to use _void ...
     kwdefaults = getattr(obj, '__kwdefaults__', _void) # ... and not None here
-    annotations = getattr(obj, '__annotations__', None)
 
     return (isinstance(code, types.CodeType) and
             isinstance(name, str) and
             (defaults is None or isinstance(defaults, tuple)) and
-            (kwdefaults is None or isinstance(kwdefaults, dict)) and
-            (isinstance(annotations, (dict)) or annotations is None) )
+            (kwdefaults is None or isinstance(kwdefaults, dict)))
 
 
 def _signature_strip_non_python_syntax(signature):

Lib/test/test_inspect/test_inspect.py

@@ -4997,6 +4997,37 @@ def test_signature_annotation_format(self):
                 with self.assertRaisesRegex(NameError, "undefined"):
                     signature_func(ida.f)
 
+    def test_signature_deferred_annotations(self):
+        def f(x: undef):
+            pass
+
+        class C:
+            x: undef
+
+            def __init__(self, x: undef):
+                self.x = x
+
+        sig = inspect.signature(f, annotation_format=Format.FORWARDREF)
+        self.assertEqual(list(sig.parameters), ['x'])
+        sig = inspect.signature(C, annotation_format=Format.FORWARDREF)
+        self.assertEqual(list(sig.parameters), ['x'])
+
+        class CallableWrapper:
+            def __init__(self, func):
+                self.func = func
+                self.__annotate__ = func.__annotate__
+
+            def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+                return self.func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+            @property
+            def __annotations__(self):
+                return self.__annotate__(Format.VALUE)
+
+        cw = CallableWrapper(f)
+        sig = inspect.signature(cw, annotation_format=Format.FORWARDREF)
+        self.assertEqual(list(sig.parameters), ['args', 'kwargs'])
+
     def test_signature_none_annotation(self):
         class funclike:
             # Has to be callable, and have correct

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-05-04-17-04-55.gh-issue-132493.huirKi.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Avoid accessing ``__annotations__`` unnecessarily in
+:func:`inspect.signature`.