From 1ec519b1e2333e8cda41cf618036d49851494130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jannis Kowalick <jannisko99@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 21:25:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix type checking for pyright

the variable assignment of pathlib confused pyright. This is some magic
to enusre that both mypy and pyright correctly understand the type
signatures.
---
 scp.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scp.py b/scp.py
index 52ef0a1..b058123 100644
--- a/scp.py
+++ b/scp.py
@@ -36,8 +36,11 @@
     if TYPE_CHECKING:
         import paramiko.transport
 
-    # unconditionally adding pathlib here because typing only works in python3 anyways and it's in stdlib
-    PathTypes = Union[str, bytes, "pathlib.PurePath"]
+    # this is some magic to make sure pyright doesn't get too confused with pathlib potentially being a nullable variable
+    import pathlib
+    PurePath = pathlib.PurePath
+
+    PathTypes = Union[str, bytes, PurePath]
 except ImportError:
     pass