From 743391dc230dbf90e844ce70bb58144177e237af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "stainless-app[bot]"
 <142633134+stainless-app[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 14:54:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(internal): add type construction helper (#613)

---
 src/anthropic/_models.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/anthropic/_models.py b/src/anthropic/_models.py
index eb7ce3bd..5148d5a7 100644
--- a/src/anthropic/_models.py
+++ b/src/anthropic/_models.py
@@ -406,6 +406,15 @@ def build(
     return cast(_BaseModelT, construct_type(type_=base_model_cls, value=kwargs))
 
 
+def construct_type_unchecked(*, value: object, type_: type[_T]) -> _T:
+    """Loose coercion to the expected type with construction of nested values.
+
+    Note: the returned value from this function is not guaranteed to match the
+    given type.
+    """
+    return cast(_T, construct_type(value=value, type_=type_))
+
+
 def construct_type(*, value: object, type_: object) -> object:
     """Loose coercion to the expected type with construction of nested values.