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Clarify runtime implementation of `Generic`
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Viicos authored Oct 29, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ should treat the two largely equivalently (except for variance, see below).
takes a single type parameter ``T``. This also makes ``T`` valid as
a type within the class body.

The ``Generic`` base class uses a metaclass that defines ``__getitem__``
so that ``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::
The ``Generic`` base class implements the :func:`~object__class_getitem__`
classmethod so that ``LoggedVar[t]`` is valid as a type::

from collections.abc import Iterable

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