cffi: FFI.string invalid signature

[senyai]

typeshed/stubs/cffi/cffi/api.pyi

Line 42 in 140bba3

def string(self, cdata: CData, maxlen: int = ...) -> bytes | str: ...

I know that maxlen agument is optional.

[senyai]

After installing python -m pip install types-cffi --user (1.15.1.15) I got this file structure in site-packages:

types_cffi-1.15.1.5.dist-info/INSTALLER
types_cffi-1.15.1.5.dist-info/WHEEL
types_cffi-1.15.1.5.dist-info/METADATA
types_cffi-1.15.1.5.dist-info/top_level.txt
types_cffi-1.15.1.5.dist-info/REQUESTED
_cffi_backend-stubs/__init__.pyi
_cffi_backend-stubs/METADATA.toml
cffi-stubs/recompiler.pyi
cffi-stubs/error.pyi
cffi-stubs/__init__.pyi
cffi-stubs/lock.pyi
cffi-stubs/ffiplatform.pyi
cffi-stubs/vengine_gen.pyi
cffi-stubs/model.pyi
cffi-stubs/cparser.pyi
cffi-stubs/api.pyi
cffi-stubs/commontypes.pyi
cffi-stubs/cffi_opcode.pyi
cffi-stubs/backend_ctypes.pyi
cffi-stubs/setuptools_ext.pyi
cffi-stubs/vengine_cpy.pyi
cffi-stubs/verifier.pyi
cffi-stubs/pkgconfig.pyi
cffi-stubs/METADATA.toml

where cffi-stubs/api.pyi has the right signature and _cffi_backend-stubs/__init__.pyi has the wrong one: def string(self, cdata: CData, maxlen: int) -> bytes | str: ... What is going on?

[srittau]

This looks to be a bug in stubs/cffi/_cffi_backend.pyi. PR welcome!