https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0544/

Protocols are also known as structural subtyping. They are a way to keep the static type checker happy.

You determine whether an object supports a protocol by looking at what attributes it has (much like how Go decides if a struct meets an interface).

To define a protocol:

from typing import Protocol

class SupportsConfusion(Protocol):
    whatsthat: str = "oy"

    def whatsit(self) -> str:
	return self.whatsthat

Now any classes with compatible methods and variables will automatically be members of that protocol, so you can use that protocol class in your static type hints without actually inheriting from it.

It a method of a protocol doesn't have an implementation, you should decorate it with @abstractmethod and raise a NotImplementedError.