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JelleZijlstra opened this issue May 13, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #14198
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xml.etree.ElementTree stubs often use Element when they should use Element[Any] #14036

JelleZijlstra opened this issue May 13, 2025 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #14198

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The stubs for xml.etree.ElementTree often use just Element, which due to a TypeVar default is equivalent to Element[str]. But many of those functions probably actually work with any Element, so we should be using Element[Any] instead.

(From astral-sh/ty#336 (comment) .)
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Use Element[Any] instead of Element in ElementTree MatthewMckee4/typeshed
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