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Subclass in type hinting

When you specify cls: A, you're saying that cls expects an instance of type A. The type hint to specify cls as a class object for the type A (or its subtypes) uses typing.Type.

from typing import Type
def process_any_subclass_type_of_A(cls: Type[A]):
    pass

From The type of class objects :

Sometimes you want to talk about class objects that inherit from a given class. This can be spelled as Type[C] where C is a class. In other words, when C is the name of a class, using C to annotate an argument declares that the argument is an instance of C (or of a subclass of C), but using Type[C] as an argument annotation declares that the argument is a class object deriving from C (or C itself).


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