From d0587353fe2dece91d2a9b8ddf2696fb5adc233a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:02:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [3.7] bpo-36985: Document typing.ForwardRef (GH-14216)
 (GH-14220)

https://bugs.python.org/issue36985
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 Doc/library/typing.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index 12f4c03f4232..5adc81c1e3c8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -876,6 +876,13 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
    .. versionchanged:: 3.6.1
       Added support for default values, methods, and docstrings.
 
+.. 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,
-- 
2.47.3