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| author | Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com> | 2019-06-19 00:31:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-19 00:31:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 809ff1181ccc09c3b629f3d0ec66e13eaa111b2e (patch) | |
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Document typing.ForwardRef (GH-14216)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst index 1a766c2..d2dd03d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/typing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst @@ -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, |