[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] #216 Fix type annotation for get_default_settings

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

Applied in [r10294]. 
Thank you for the patch.


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**[patches:#216] Fix type annotation for get_default_settings**

**Status:** open-accepted
**Group:** None
**Created:** Thu Jan 22, 2026 09:04 AM UTC by Dmitry Shachnev
**Last Updated:** Sun Jan 25, 2026 02:15 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [0001-Fix-type-annotation-for-get_default_settings.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/216/attachment/0001-Fix-type-annotation-for-get_default_settings.patch) (966 Bytes; text/x-patch)


It accepts classes themselves, not instances of those classes.

This fixes error from mypy that I have for code that calls `get_default_settings(Writer)`.
```
error: Argument 1 to "get_default_settings" has incompatible type "type[Writer]"; expected "SettingsSpec"  [arg-type]
```


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