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https://bugs.python.org/issue37814:

> The empty tuple syntax in type annotations, `Tuple[()]`, is not obvious from the examples given in the documentation (I naively expected `Tuple[]` to work); it has been documented in PEP 484 and in mypy, but not in the documentation for the typing module.


https://bugs.python.org/issue37814
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sersorrel authored and miss-islington committed Aug 13, 2019
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.. data:: Tuple

Tuple type; ``Tuple[X, Y]`` is the type of a tuple of two items
with the first item of type X and the second of type Y.
with the first item of type X and the second of type Y. The type of
the empty tuple can be written as ``Tuple[()]``.

Example: ``Tuple[T1, T2]`` is a tuple of two elements corresponding
to type variables T1 and T2. ``Tuple[int, float, str]`` is a tuple
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