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Expand Up @@ -1948,10 +1948,15 @@ Introspection helpers
.. class:: ForwardRef

A class used for internal typing representation of string forward references.
For example, ``list["SomeClass"]`` is implicitly transformed into
``list[ForwardRef("SomeClass")]``. This class should not be instantiated by
For example, ``List["SomeClass"]`` is implicitly transformed into
``List[ForwardRef("SomeClass")]``. This class should not be instantiated by
a user, but may be used by introspection tools.

.. note::
:pep:`585` generic types such as ``list["SomeClass"]`` will not be
implicitly transformed into ``list[ForwardRef("SomeClass")]`` and thus
will not be resolved to ``list[SomeClass]``.

.. versionadded:: 3.7.4

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