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authorIvan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com>2019-06-19 00:31:51 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-06-19 00:31:51 (GMT)
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Document typing.ForwardRef (GH-14216)
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@@ -1001,6 +1001,13 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
.. versionadded:: 3.8
+.. class:: ForwardRef
+
+ A class used for internal typing representation of string forward references.
+ For example, ``List["SomeClass"]`` is implicitly transformed into
+ ``List[ForwardRef("SomeClass")]``. This class should not be instantiated by
+ a user, but may be used by introspection tools.
+
.. function:: NewType(typ)
A helper function to indicate a distinct types to a typechecker,