From 7267887b4ece84af66ef056054867d1a0664a96b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mferrera <matt.ferrera@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:58:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: Union dtypes for Python 3.8 compatibility

Even with future annotations imported creating a unioned type of types,
using the `type[]` future annotations, caused some errors.
---
 src/xtgeo/grid3d/grid_property.py | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/xtgeo/grid3d/grid_property.py b/src/xtgeo/grid3d/grid_property.py
index f449afe9c..7f28e2b94 100644
--- a/src/xtgeo/grid3d/grid_property.py
+++ b/src/xtgeo/grid3d/grid_property.py
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
 logger = null_logger(__name__)
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from typing import Union
+
     import numpy.typing as npt
 
     from xtgeo.common.types import FileLike
@@ -47,17 +49,17 @@
     from ._gridprop_op1 import XYValueLists
     from .grid import Grid
 
-    GridProperty_DType = (
-        type[np.uint8]
-        | type[np.uint16]
-        | type[np.int16]
-        | type[np.int32]
-        | type[np.int64]
-        | type[np.float16]
-        | type[np.float32]
-        | type[np.float64]
-    )
-    Roxar_DType = type[np.uint8] | type[np.uint16] | type[np.float32]
+    GridProperty_DType = Union[
+        type[np.uint8],
+        type[np.uint16],
+        type[np.int16],
+        type[np.int32],
+        type[np.int64],
+        type[np.float16],
+        type[np.float32],
+        type[np.float64],
+    ]
+    Roxar_DType = Union[type[np.uint8], type[np.uint16], type[np.float32]]
 
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