Why does mypy complain about Any as return annotation and how should I annotate a return value that can be anything?

Question

I have a class that is essentially a wrapper around a dictionary:

class Wrapper(dict):

    ...

    def __getitem__(self, item: Hashable) -> Any:
        return self.wrapped[item]

When checking the annotations with mypy, it yields an Explicit "Any" is not allowed when checking this code. My guess is that this stems from the concept that Any is the ancestor and successor of all other types. How should I annotate such function where I want to allow anything to be returned?

Answer 1

This happens when the disallow_any_explicit is set to True for that module in the configuration file. Just remove that option for the default False.