Using type hint Any in Django - NameError: name 'Any' is not defined

Question

When I use the autocomplete suggestion in VSCode to make a get_context_data() function:

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        return super().get_context_data(**kwargs)

I get a NameError: NameError: name 'Any' is not defined

I am new to using type hints in Python - do I need to import something for type Any?

pgrad · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-10 21:37:42Z

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Any in this context is a type annotation. You need to import it from the typing module for it to be recognized.

from typing import Any

Should solve your problem.

answered Jun 10, 2022 at 21:37

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Ambassador Kosh Over a year ago

Also needed to import Dict

pgrad Over a year ago

Note that with Python 3.10+ the typing versions of List, Dict, Set and Frozenset are being deprecated. For more information on typing in general you should read over the official documentation. link

majorgear Oct 21 at 15:43

More detail needed. What replaces them?

STerliakov Over a year ago

@pgrad starting from python 3.9, actually

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