René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[ENH]: Add TypedDict (like) type hints to rcParams","articleBody":"### Problem\n\nIn Python 3.8, `typing.TypedDict` was added to represent dictionary objects with a specific set of keys: https://typing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/spec/typeddict.html#typeddict. Using a `TypedDict` allows code editors (in my case VSCode) to offer autocomplete suggestions for keys.\r\n\r\nIt would be super useful for `rcParams` if one could e.g., type `rcParams[\"font` and get autocomplete suggestions for all the font keys.\r\n\r\nThis is what it an example looks like in VSCode:\r\n\u003cimg width=\"598\" alt=\"Screenshot 2024-05-14 at 08 58 07\" src=\"https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/assets/6197628/bb026cb2-2476-4db5-bada-63922cdd032a\"\u003e\r\n\n\n### Proposed solution\n\n_No response_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dstansby","@type":"Person","name":"dstansby"},"datePublished":"2024-05-14T08:03:35.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/28222/matplotlib/issues/28222"}