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!typing --- Support for type hints — Aliases to built-in types

""""""""""""""""""""""""" Deprecated alias to dict. Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as ~collections.abc.Mapping rather than to use dict or !typing.Dict. Deprecated alias to list. Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstr

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). """"""""""""""""""""""""" Deprecated alias to dict. Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as ~collections.abc.Mapping rather than to use dict or !typing.Dict. Deprecated alias to list. Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as ~collections.abc.Sequence or ~collections.abc.Iterable rather than to use list or !typing.List. Deprecated alias to builtins.set . Note that to annotate arguments, it is preferred to use an abstract collection type such as collections.abc.Set rather than to use set or typing.Set. Deprecated alias to builtins.frozenset . Deprecated alias for tuple. tuple and Tuple are special-cased in the type system; see annotating-tuples for more details. Deprecated alias to type. See type-of-class-objects for details on using type or typing.Type in type annotations. Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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Python Documentation — Doc/library/typing.rst :: Aliases to built-in types ↗Revision 948fd7e5c084 · PSF-2.0
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