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Replace type with types for the explanation type hint in glossary.rst #141668

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Expand Up @@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ Glossary
See :mod:`typing` and :pep:`484`, which describe this functionality.

type hint
An :term:`annotation` that specifies the expected type for a variable, a class
An :term:`annotation` that specifies the expected types for a variable, a class
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IMO, the current one makes sense, if we take for example x: int | None than "int | None" is a typing.Union, i.e. a single object. Similarly, the union of two sets is a set, not sets.

attribute, or a function parameter or return value.

Type hints are optional and are not enforced by Python but
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