From d11f44f6d1ed2cf314c4665742f853193ae27354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sujit Nirmal <nirmalsujit891@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:36:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [pycocotools] Accept lists of RLEs in mask.decode, area and
 toBbox

---
 stubs/pycocotools/pycocotools/mask.pyi | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stubs/pycocotools/pycocotools/mask.pyi b/stubs/pycocotools/pycocotools/mask.pyi
index 84e85c3bf215..7d92f2863ec4 100644
--- a/stubs/pycocotools/pycocotools/mask.pyi
+++ b/stubs/pycocotools/pycocotools/mask.pyi
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ def frPyObjects(pyobj: _NDArrayUInt32 | list[list[int]] | list[_EncodedRLE], h:
 def frPyObjects(pyobj: list[int] | _EncodedRLE, h: int, w: int) -> _EncodedRLE: ...
 
 def encode(bimask: _NDArrayUInt8) -> _EncodedRLE: ...
-def decode(rleObjs: _EncodedRLE) -> _NDArrayUInt8: ...
+def decode(rleObjs: _EncodedRLE | list[_EncodedRLE]) -> _NDArrayUInt8: ...
+
+@overload
 def area(rleObjs: _EncodedRLE) -> _NPUInt32: ...
-def toBbox(rleObjs: _EncodedRLE) -> _NDArrayFloat64: ...
+@overload
+def area(rleObjs: list[_EncodedRLE]) -> _NDArrayUInt32: ...
+
+def toBbox(rleObjs: _EncodedRLE | list[_EncodedRLE]) -> _NDArrayFloat64: ...