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@srittau srittau commented May 13, 2025

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reasons can include:

* Using :ref:`Any` as a type argument for a generic to say "any object of this
type is allowed", e.g. ``type[Any]``.
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This should be type[object].

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Maybe use Future[Any] as example? This is what caused me to submit this PR, after all.

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Yes, that's a better example. In general you need this for invariant generics; for covariant ones object is fine.

@srittau srittau merged commit ef75648 into python:main May 20, 2025
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@srittau srittau deleted the any-policy branch May 20, 2025 17:06
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