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15 changes: 15 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/typing.rst
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concat(b"foo", b"bar") # OK, output has type 'bytes'
concat("foo", b"bar") # Error, cannot mix str and bytes

Note that, despite its name, ``AnyStr`` has nothing to do with the
:class:`Any` type, nor does it mean "any string". In particular, ``AnyStr``
and ``str | bytes`` are different from each other and have different use
cases::

# Invalid use of AnyStr:
# The type variable is used only once in the function signature,
# so cannot be "solved" by the type checker
def greet_bad(cond: bool) -> AnyStr:
return "hi there!" if cond else b"greetings!"

# The better way of annotating this function:
def greet_proper(cond: bool) -> str | bytes:
return "hi there!" if cond else b"greetings!"

.. data:: LiteralString

Special type that includes only literal strings.
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