Update documentation for typing module

[ilevkivskyi]

BPO	28388
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @ilevkivskyi
Files	doc-typing-patch.diff

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[ilevkivskyi]

Here is the patch with updates according to recent changes in typing module and PEP-484:

• most things are not classes now
• outcome of parameterizing generics is cached
• Union does not unify everything with Any
• few minor fixes

This patch also fixes http://bugs.python.org/issue27588

The attached patch is generated for 3.5

[gvanrossum]

LGTM. I have a small number of nits that I will apply when merging this.

[python-dev]

New changeset 9953efbb4974 by Guido van Rossum in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-28388: update typing module documentation.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9953efbb4974

New changeset 589e11c3489e by Guido van Rossum in branch '3.6':
Issue bpo-28388: update typing module documentation. (merge 3.5->3.6)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/589e11c3489e

New changeset 6cb9dfe4cbeb by Guido van Rossum in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-28388: update typing module documentation. (merge 3.6->3.7)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6cb9dfe4cbeb

[python-dev]

New changeset d7f2b0332343 by Guido van Rossum in branch '3.5':
Adjust ClassVar example to use pre-PEP-526 syntax. (Issue bpo-28388)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d7f2b0332343