[Python-checkins] gh-92417: `typing` docs: `from __future__ import annotations` can be used in all supported Python versions (GH-92418)
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commit: 80ce70110b61db63a7dec33df59369b0b1b09144
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-05-08T08:04:18-07:00
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gh-92417: `typing` docs: `from __future__ import annotations` can be used in all supported Python versions (GH-92418)
(cherry picked from commit e5b4bd4d60aaf0292c5b9d628512145b8987b3c6)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood at Gmail.com>
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@@ -2290,7 +2290,7 @@ Constant
.. note::
- If ``from __future__ import annotations`` is used in Python 3.7 or later,
+ If ``from __future__ import annotations`` is used,
annotations are not evaluated at function definition time.
Instead, they are stored as strings in ``__annotations__``.
This makes it unnecessary to use quotes around the annotation
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