Add Text=str. Make ItemsView derive from AbstractSet, not Set (which is the concrete set).

gvanrossum · gvanrossum · commit 0e0563ca2c6d · 2016-04-05T14:54:25.000-07:00
diff --git a/Lib/typing.py b/Lib/typing.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
     'no_type_check',
     'no_type_check_decorator',
     'overload',
+    'Text',
 ]
 
 # The pseudo-submodules 're' and 'io' are part of the public
@@ -1519,7 +1520,7 @@ class KeysView(MappingView[KT], AbstractSet[KT],
 
 
 class ItemsView(MappingView[Tuple[KT, VT_co]],
-                Set[Tuple[KT, VT_co]],
+                AbstractSet[Tuple[KT, VT_co]],
                 Generic[KT, VT_co],
                 extra=collections_abc.ItemsView):
     pass
@@ -1592,6 +1593,10 @@ def NamedTuple(typename, fields):
     return cls
 
 
+# Python-version-specific alias (Python 2: unicode; Python 3: str)
+Text = str
+
+
 class IO(Generic[AnyStr]):
     """Generic base class for TextIO and BinaryIO.
 
