From: Meer Suri <46469858+meersuri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 04:04:04 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: bpo-46494: Mention the typing_extensions pkg in typing docs (GH-31260)
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bpo-46494: Mention the typing_extensions pkg in typing docs (GH-31260)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index bfcbeb8c7e68..935a26136265 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 <https://pypi.org/project/typing-extensions/>`_ package
+provides backports of these new features to older versions of Python.
+
 .. _relevant-peps:
 
 Relevant PEPs