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authorShantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>2022-04-30 03:13:21 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-04-30 03:13:21 (GMT)
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Rephrase typing.assert_never docs (#92061)
This change is similar to that in #32069
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@@ -2337,7 +2337,7 @@ Functions and decorators
.. function:: assert_never(arg, /)
- Assert to the type checker that a line of code is unreachable.
+ Ask a static type checker to confirm that a line of code is unreachable.
Example::
@@ -2358,7 +2358,7 @@ Functions and decorators
reachable, it will emit an error. For example, if the type annotation
for ``arg`` was instead ``int | str | float``, the type checker would
emit an error pointing out that ``unreachable`` is of type :class:`float`.
- For a call to ``assert_never`` to succeed, the inferred type of
+ For a call to ``assert_never`` to pass type checking, the inferred type of
the argument passed in must be the bottom type, :data:`Never`, and nothing
else.