Bug report
Bug description:
If there's an annotation with an incorrect attribute access, the AttributeError causes get_annotations to return an empty dictionary for the annotations instead of failing or returning a ForwardRef.
import typing from annotationlib import get_annotations, Format class Example2: real_attribute: typing.Any fake_attribute: typing.DoesNotExist new_ann = get_annotations(Example2, format=Format.FORWARDREF) print(f"{new_ann=}") # This should fail, but instead returns an empty dict value_ann = get_annotations(Example2, format=Format.VALUE) print(f"{value_ann=}") string_ann = get_annotations(Example2, format=Format.STRING) print(f"{string_ann=}")
Output
new_ann={}
value_ann={}
string_ann={'real_attribute': 'typing.Any', 'fake_attribute': 'typing.DoesNotExist'}
I think this is due to _get_dunder_annotations catching AttributeError and returning an empty dict, intended for static types but catching this by mistake.
CPython versions tested on:
3.14
Operating systems tested on:
Linux