¶The Any type

The Any type is the canonical gradual type.

Any represents an unknown static type. It denotes some unknown set of values.

typing.Any is a name for the Any type that you can use in Python type annotations.

typing.Any

Gradual types

Python typing is gradual, which means that a program type-checks if there is some materialization of gradual types that type-checks. Hence:

Every type is assignable to Any, and Any is assignable to every type.

You can subclass typing.Any

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