Mysterious Any from vision

Deep Learning
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Hey,
Does anybody know what ‘Any’ is?
i can import it from fastai.vision and when i try
Any??
in jupyter notebook i get the following:

Signature:   Any(*args, **kwds)
Type:        _SpecialForm
String form: typing.Any
File:        d:\program_files\lib\typing.py
Source:     
class _SpecialForm(_Final, _Immutable, _root=True):
    """Internal indicator of special typing constructs.
    See _doc instance attribute for specific docs.
    """

    __slots__ = ('_name', '_doc')

    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwds):
        """Constructor.

        This only exists to give a better error message in case
        someone tries to subclass a special typing object (not a good idea).
        """
        if (len(args) == 3 and
                isinstance(args[0], str) and
                isinstance(args[1], tuple)):
            # Close enough.
            raise TypeError(f"Cannot subclass {cls!r}")
        return super().__new__(cls)

    def __init__(self, name, doc):
        self._name = name
        self._doc = doc

    def __eq__(self, other):
        if not isinstance(other, _SpecialForm):
            return NotImplemented
        return self._name == other._name

    def __hash__(self):
        return hash((self._name,))

    def __repr__(self):
        return 'typing.' + self._name

    def __reduce__(self):
        return self._name

    def __call__(self, *args, **kwds):
        raise TypeError(f"Cannot instantiate {self!r}")

    def __instancecheck__(self, obj):
        raise TypeError(f"{self} cannot be used with isinstance()")

    def __subclasscheck__(self, cls):
        raise TypeError(f"{self} cannot be used with issubclass()")

    @_tp_cache
    def __getitem__(self, parameters):
        if self._name == 'ClassVar':
            item = _type_check(parameters, 'ClassVar accepts only single type.')
            return _GenericAlias(self, (item,))
        if self._name == 'Union':
            if parameters == ():
                raise TypeError("Cannot take a Union of no types.")
            if not isinstance(parameters, tuple):
                parameters = (parameters,)
            msg = "Union[arg, ...]: each arg must be a type."
            parameters = tuple(_type_check(p, msg) for p in parameters)
            parameters = _remove_dups_flatten(parameters)
            if len(parameters) == 1:
                return parameters[0]
            return _GenericAlias(self, parameters)
        if self._name == 'Optional':
            arg = _type_check(parameters, "Optional[t] requires a single type.")
            return Union[arg, type(None)]
        raise TypeError(f"{self} is not subscriptable")

Thank you :smiley: