From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 04:29:09 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-46494: Mention the typing_extensions pkg in typing docs (GH-31260) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.11~31 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c718e02f60f98275c62e8a2a152f086650e88ea;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-46494: Mention the typing_extensions pkg in typing docs (GH-31260) (cherry picked from commit 8debeed3075bf4d7e568e65da16bec63cf276f4f) Co-authored-by: Meer Suri <46469858+meersuri@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst index 2da544884db1..9e6ef6a64286 100644 --- a/Doc/library/typing.rst +++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ In the function ``greeting``, the argument ``name`` is expected to be of type :class:`str` and the return type :class:`str`. Subtypes are accepted as arguments. +New features are frequently added to the ``typing`` module. +The `typing_extensions `_ package +provides backports of these new features to older versions of Python. + .. _relevant-peps: Relevant PEPs