astroid.brain.brain_type

Astroid hooks for type support. Starting from python3.9, type object behaves as it had __class_getitem__ method. However it was not possible to simply add this method inside type's body, otherwise all types would also have this method. In this case it would have been possible to write str[int]. Guido Van Rossum proposed a hack to handle this in the interpreter: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/67e394562d67cbcd0ac8114e5439494e7645b8f5/Objects/abstract.c#L181-L184 This brain follows the same logic. It is no wise to add permanently the __class_getitem__ method to the type object. Instead we choose to add it only in the case of a subscript node which inside name node is type. Doing this type[int] is allowed whereas str[int] is not. Thanks to Lukasz Langa for fruitful discussion.