You can use list instead of List for typing since 3.9. I use that daily. Also the pipe | operator instead of Union/Optional. Nicer dict unions/updates.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.9.html https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.11.html https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html