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gh-104010: Separate and improve docs for typing.get_origin and typing.get_args #104013

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if a default value equal to ``None`` was set.
Now the annotation is returned unchanged.

.. function:: get_args(tp)
.. function:: get_origin(tp)

Provide basic introspection for generic types and special typing forms.

For a typing object of the form ``X[Y, Z, ...]`` these functions return
``X`` and ``(Y, Z, ...)``. If ``X`` is a generic alias for a builtin or
Get the unsubscripted version of a type: for a typing object of the form
``X[Y, Z, ...]`` return ``X``. If ``X`` is a generic alias for a builtin or
:mod:`collections` class, it gets normalized to the original class.
If ``X`` is an instance of :class:`ParamSpecArgs` or :class:`ParamSpecKwargs`,
return the underlying :class:`ParamSpec`.
Return ``None`` for unsupported objects.
Examples::

assert get_origin(str) is None
assert get_origin(Dict[str, int]) is dict
assert get_origin(Union[int, str]) is Union
P = ParamSpec('P')
assert get_origin(P.args) is P
assert get_origin(P.kwargs) is P

.. versionadded:: 3.8

.. function:: get_args(tp)

Get type arguments with all substitutions performed: for a typing object
of the form ``X[Y, Z, ...]`` return ``(Y, Z, ...)``.
If ``X`` is a union or :class:`Literal` contained in another
generic type, the order of ``(Y, Z, ...)`` may be different from the order
of the original arguments ``[Y, Z, ...]`` due to type caching.
For unsupported objects return ``None`` and ``()`` correspondingly.
Return ``()`` for unsupported objects.
Examples::

assert get_origin(Dict[str, int]) is dict
assert get_args(int) == ()
assert get_args(Dict[int, str]) == (int, str)

assert get_origin(Union[int, str]) is Union
assert get_args(Union[int, str]) == (int, str)

.. versionadded:: 3.8
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