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Can't find module, which contains PyHANDLE for type annotation

I wanted to find a type of value, returning by win32file.CreateFile() in python. From post i learned that it must be a pywintypes.HANDLE object.

But i sill got "cannot find reference" warning when i try to annotate my handle object like that:

import pywintypes
import win32file

handle: pywintypes.HANDLE

handle = win32file.CreateFile(args)

So, how to annotate this variable correctly?

Solution

  • In the post which you mentioned, was this example:

    hwnd = win32gui.FindWindow(None, "window")  # Return handle as an integer

PyHANDLE = pywintypes.HANDLE(hwnd)

    In your case, you just annotated variable. I don't know what you want to do, but if you want to use pywintypes like in the post, you may to try this:

    import pywintypes
import win32file


win32_created_file = win32file.CreateFile(args)
handle: pywintypes.HANDLE = pywintypes.HANDLE(win32_created_file)