From cdb3e869c947d79b4ba1d30e7609bc2d31c66762 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Roberto=20Fern=C3=A1ndez=20Iglesias?=
 <development@roberfi.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 08:55:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [docker-py] Add `exec_start` overload

---
 stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi b/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
index 0c50a6091cbe..79437b4f73eb 100644
--- a/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
+++ b/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
@@ -115,3 +115,21 @@ class ExecApiMixin:
         socket: Literal[False] = False,
         demux: Literal[False] = False,
     ) -> str: ...
+    @overload
+    def exec_start(
+        self,
+        exec_id: str,
+        detach: bool = False,
+        tty: bool = False,
+        stream: bool = False,
+        socket: bool = False,
+        demux: bool = False,
+    ) -> (
+        str
+        | SocketIO
+        | _BufferedReaderStream
+        | SSHSocket
+        | CancellableStream[str]
+        | CancellableStream[tuple[str | None, str | None]]
+        | tuple[str | None, str | None]
+    ): ...

From 0cb8099246c1cc46b7d15b922dcaa9370ffa012d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Roberto=20Fern=C3=A1ndez=20Iglesias?=
 <development@roberfi.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:21:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [docker-py] Fix `exec_start` return sub-type on stream

---
 stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi b/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
index 79437b4f73eb..d2555e198210 100644
--- a/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
+++ b/stubs/docker/docker/api/exec_api.pyi
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ class ExecApiMixin:
         stream: Literal[True],
         socket: Literal[False],
         demux: Literal[False],
-    ) -> CancellableStream[str]: ...
+    ) -> CancellableStream[bytes]: ...
     @overload
     def exec_start(
         self,
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class ExecApiMixin:
         stream: Literal[True],
         socket: Literal[False] = False,
         demux: Literal[False] = False,
-    ) -> CancellableStream[str]: ...
+    ) -> CancellableStream[bytes]: ...
     @overload
     def exec_start(
         self,
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class ExecApiMixin:
         stream: Literal[False] = False,
         socket: Literal[False] = False,
         demux: Literal[False] = False,
-    ) -> str: ...
+    ) -> bytes: ...
     @overload
     def exec_start(
         self,
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ class ExecApiMixin:
         | SocketIO
         | _BufferedReaderStream
         | SSHSocket
-        | CancellableStream[str]
+        | CancellableStream[bytes]
         | CancellableStream[tuple[str | None, str | None]]
         | tuple[str | None, str | None]
+        | bytes
     ): ...