From 67d3d0344f129d486540ab0a41c8c820ca835d18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VanshAgarwal24036 <148854295+VanshAgarwal24036@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 09:02:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gh-143089: Fix ParamSpec default examples to use list
 instead of tuple (#143179)

---
 Objects/typevarobject.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Objects/typevarobject.c b/Objects/typevarobject.c
index 8e43962c7e37f4..2ec546aff52c0a 100644
--- a/Objects/typevarobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typevarobject.c
@@ -1451,13 +1451,13 @@ The following syntax creates a parameter specification that defaults\n\
 to a callable accepting two positional-only arguments of types int\n\
 and str:\n\
 \n\
-    type IntFuncDefault[**P = (int, str)] = Callable[P, int]\n\
+    type IntFuncDefault[**P = [int, str]] = Callable[P, int]\n\
 \n\
 For compatibility with Python 3.11 and earlier, ParamSpec objects\n\
 can also be created as follows::\n\
 \n\
     P = ParamSpec('P')\n\
-    DefaultP = ParamSpec('DefaultP', default=(int, str))\n\
+    DefaultP = ParamSpec('DefaultP', default=[int, str])\n\
 \n\
 Parameter specification variables exist primarily for the benefit of\n\
 static type checkers.  They are used to forward the parameter types of\n\

From 6c9f7b4406d507625ff414cddc549d4c630c59c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bartosz=20S=C5=82awecki?= <bartosz@ilikepython.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:41:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] gh-143517: Fix an edge case in rewriting stringified
 starred annotations (#143518)

---
 Lib/annotationlib.py                                          | 2 +-
 Lib/test/test_annotationlib.py                                | 3 +++
 .../Library/2026-01-07-15-49-06.gh-issue-143517.FP5KgL.rst    | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-07-15-49-06.gh-issue-143517.FP5KgL.rst

diff --git a/Lib/annotationlib.py b/Lib/annotationlib.py
index a5788cdbfae3f5..4085cc6bef7954 100644
--- a/Lib/annotationlib.py
+++ b/Lib/annotationlib.py
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ def _rewrite_star_unpack(arg):
     """If the given argument annotation expression is a star unpack e.g. `'*Ts'`
        rewrite it to a valid expression.
        """
-    if arg.startswith("*"):
+    if arg.lstrip().startswith("*"):
         return f"({arg},)[0]"  # E.g. (*Ts,)[0] or (*tuple[int, int],)[0]
     else:
         return arg
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_annotationlib.py b/Lib/test/test_annotationlib.py
index 8208d0e9c94819..a8537871d294cf 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_annotationlib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_annotationlib.py
@@ -885,6 +885,9 @@ def test_stringized_annotations_with_star_unpack(self):
         def f(*args: "*tuple[int, ...]"): ...
         self.assertEqual(get_annotations(f, eval_str=True),
                          {'args': (*tuple[int, ...],)[0]})
+        def f(*args: " *tuple[int, ...]"): ...
+        self.assertEqual(get_annotations(f, eval_str=True),
+                         {'args': (*tuple[int, ...],)[0]})
 
 
     def test_stringized_annotations_on_wrapper(self):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-07-15-49-06.gh-issue-143517.FP5KgL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-07-15-49-06.gh-issue-143517.FP5KgL.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..a9936b5d018692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-01-07-15-49-06.gh-issue-143517.FP5KgL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+:func:`annotationlib.get_annotations` no longer raises a :exc:`SyntaxError`
+when evaluating a stringified starred annotation that starts with one
+or more whitespace characters followed by a ``*``.
+Patch by Bartosz Sławecki.