You can use Forward References as defined in PEP 484
A situation where this occurs commonly is the definition of a
container class, where the class being defined occurs in the signature
of some of the methods. For example, the following code (the start of
a simple binary tree implementation) does not work:class Tree: def __init__(self, left: Tree, right: Tree): self.left = left self.right = right
To address this, we write:
class Tree: def __init__(self, left: 'Tree', right: 'Tree'): self.left = left self.right = right
It is allowable to use string literals as part of a type hint, for
example:class Tree: ... def leaves(self) -> List['Tree']: