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Author gvanrossum
Recipients gvanrossum, levkivskyi, tkomiya
Date 2020-11-08.22:07:34
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There is actually a difference between Any and Optional[Any]. Try the following using e.g. mypy:

def f(a: Optional[Any]):
    a+1

def g(a: Any):
    a+1

You'll get an error in f but not in g.

So this behavior is not a bug.
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