[Python-checkins] Document typing.ForwardRef (GH-14216)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fff695b9abaa1075ceee95880dba26307df1e7e5
commit: fff695b9abaa1075ceee95880dba26307df1e7e5
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-06-18T17:38:43-07:00
summary:

Document typing.ForwardRef (GH-14216)

(cherry picked from commit 809ff1181ccc09c3b629f3d0ec66e13eaa111b2e)

Co-authored-by: Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/typing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
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@@ -1001,6 +1001,13 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.8
 
+.. 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,