`Field.widget` is `Widget | type[Widget]`

[tylerlaprade]

field.widget used to be Any in version 0.19.1, so code like widget.choices worked just fine, although it wasn't typed. Now that widget has a specific type of Widget | type[Widget], all our code involving widgets is full of errors since type[Widget] doesn't have attributes on it. Is this an oversight, or is there some reason widget could be a type? If so, what's the best way to work with widgets in our code with type-checking? Right now, we're blocked from upgrading to 0.20.0 as a result.

[chrisimcevoy]

I don't think this is a bug.

Related:

• Fix the type of form.Field.widget typeddjango/django-stubs#321
• Allow Field.widget to be a class or instance typeddjango/django-stubs#426

Is this an oversight, or is there some reason widget could be a type?

I think this is what you're looking for.