From f7eb55b26029ea1f7a95c8727d85feb448960598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Smith <ethan@ethanhs.me>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 15:57:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make difflib.SequenceMatcher, filecmp.dircmp, and ...

... fileinput.FileInput generic.
---
 Lib/difflib.py                | 4 ++++
 Lib/filecmp.py                | 4 ++++
 Lib/fileinput.py              | 3 +++
 Lib/test/test_genericalias.py | 6 ++++++
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
index 5d756436a67e19..f2215d8d4561c2 100644
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 
 from heapq import nlargest as _nlargest
 from collections import namedtuple as _namedtuple
+from types import GenericAlias
 
 Match = _namedtuple('Match', 'a b size')
 
@@ -685,6 +686,9 @@ def real_quick_ratio(self):
         # shorter sequence
         return _calculate_ratio(min(la, lb), la + lb)
 
+    __class_getitem__ = classmethod(GenericAlias)
+
+
 def get_close_matches(word, possibilities, n=3, cutoff=0.6):
     """Use SequenceMatcher to return list of the best "good enough" matches.
 
diff --git a/Lib/filecmp.py b/Lib/filecmp.py
index cfdca1e924f552..7a4da6beb50500 100644
--- a/Lib/filecmp.py
+++ b/Lib/filecmp.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import os
 import stat
 from itertools import filterfalse
+from types import GenericAlias
 
 __all__ = ['clear_cache', 'cmp', 'dircmp', 'cmpfiles', 'DEFAULT_IGNORES']
 
@@ -247,6 +248,9 @@ def __getattr__(self, attr):
         self.methodmap[attr](self)
         return getattr(self, attr)
 
+    __class_getitem__ = classmethod(GenericAlias)
+
+
 def cmpfiles(a, b, common, shallow=True):
     """Compare common files in two directories.
 
diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index c1b0ec9a8ed084..0c31f93ed8f2e7 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
 """
 
 import sys, os
+from types import GenericAlias
 
 __all__ = ["input", "close", "nextfile", "filename", "lineno", "filelineno",
            "fileno", "isfirstline", "isstdin", "FileInput", "hook_compressed",
@@ -391,6 +392,8 @@ def isfirstline(self):
     def isstdin(self):
         return self._isstdin
 
+    __class_getitem__ = classmethod(GenericAlias)
+
 
 def hook_compressed(filename, mode):
     ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py b/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
index 9c5b23e5e5b0fc..ed8120fedcb3dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 )
 from collections.abc import *
 from contextlib import AbstractContextManager, AbstractAsyncContextManager
+from difflib import SequenceMatcher
+from filecmp import dircmp
+from fileinput import FileInput
 from os import DirEntry
 from re import Pattern, Match
 from types import GenericAlias, MappingProxyType
@@ -21,6 +24,9 @@ class BaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_subscriptable(self):
         for t in (type, tuple, list, dict, set, frozenset,
                   defaultdict, deque,
+                  SequenceMatcher,
+                  dircmp,
+                  FileInput,
                   OrderedDict, Counter, UserDict, UserList,
                   Pattern, Match,
                   AbstractContextManager, AbstractAsyncContextManager,