I was just sprucing up EDMarketConnector's new Build-exe-and-msi.py which invokes py2exe.freeze() and noticed PyCharm was unhappy with the types for the console= and windows= arguments.

We have:

    windows=[
        {
            'dest_base': appname,
            'script': APP,
            'icon_resources': [(0, f'{appname}.ico')],
            'other_resources': [(24, 1, open(f'{appname}.manifest').read())],
        }
    ],
    console=[
        {
            'dest_base': appcmdname,
            'script': APPCMD,
            'other_resources': [(24, 1, open(f'{appcmdname}.manifest').read())],
        }
    ],

which works perfectly fine. PyCharm notes that the declared types of those arguments are list[str], and the documentation says:

console (list of str): paths of the Python files that will be frozen as console (CLI) executables.
windows (list of str): paths of the Python files that will be frozen as windows (GUI) executables.

However, e.g. https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe/blob/master/tests/functional/bundlefiles0_sqlite_test/freeze.py has:

freeze(console=[{ "script": "bundlefiles0_sqlite_test.py"}],
...

So this list[dict[...]] form does seem to be correct.

I do note that https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe/blob/master/py2exe/__init__.py#L16 doesn't actually declare types, so I can only assume PyCharm is picking this up from the docstring. mypy doesn't complain.