Intended use of __replace__

[nickyoung-github]

I've just noticed the very convenient __replace__ method on dataclasses. It's got all the right type hinting when using pyright (python 3.13). However, __replace__ is conspicuously missing from the dataclass documentation; is it supposed to be used directly, or to provide type hinting in future for some other function, e.g., copy.replace or dataclasses.replace ?

[srittau]

This is not really a typing related question. As far as I know __replace__() is intended to be used with copy.replace(). A better place to ask is probably the Python Help category on discuss.python.org.