* In most cases,[recursive type aliases](#named-recursive-types) won't work.

By leveraging the new[`type` statement](https://typing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/spec/aliases.html#type-statement)

(introduced in[PEP 695]), you can define aliases as follows:

(introduced in[PEP 695](https://peps.python.org/pep-0695/)), you can define aliases as follows:

=== "Python 3.9 and above"