{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ambv/typehinting/issues/33","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ambv/typehinting/issues/33/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ambv/typehinting/issues/33/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ambv/typehinting/issues/33/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ambv/typehinting/issues/33","id":53681534,"number":33,"title":"Support Any(val)?","user":{"login":"gvanrossum","id":2894642,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2894642?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum","html_url":"https://github.com/gvanrossum","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvanrossum/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-01-07T20:59:41Z","updated_at":"2015-01-07T20:59:41Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I just noticed that mypy's typing.py says that Any can be used to cast a value to type Any. E.g.\r\n```\r\nx = 42\r\ny = Any(x)\r\ny.append(42)  # No error\r\n```\r\nDo we want/need this? What other notation could be used that we already support?"}}