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Author gvanrossum
Recipients asvetlov, gvanrossum, levkivskyi, yselivanov
Date 2019-12-05.16:34:21
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Well, __class_getitem__ was added primarily to allow classes implemented in
*C* to support "generics". This is helpful to support PEP 585. For classes
written in Python I don't see the point.

But I'll leave the rest of this to Ivan.
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