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Python 3.9 extract_generic fails

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I seem to have failures when using latest dacite with an object of type Dict.

key_cls, item_cls = extract_generic(target_type)

if target_type is List or Dict I get a zero length tuple rather than the expected two values.

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:7 (1 by maintainers)

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konradhalascommented, Nov 27, 2020

Thank you @acepace for reporting this issue. It should be fixed in master.

@zcutlip thank you for the simple and clean solution.

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zcutlipcommented, Nov 29, 2020

Thanks for the quick patch. I’m glad I procrastinated and didn’t send you a PR because you caught some changes I would have missed.

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