Loosen some types to avoid pain in real-life situations #4870
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set.__[i]sub__()
to allow typical use cases (that work at runtime). Namely, allow removingunicode
from a set ofstr
, and allow removing optional values from non-optional sets.cryptography
deserialization functions.SupportsItems
so thatdict
implements it on Python 2.About the first item, I think mypy should support the overloads on generic self-types (see https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/more_types.html#restricted-methods-in-generic-classes), but I am not sure about other type-checkers.
cc @JukkaL