Remove `sphinx.ext.autodoc` from the no-any-generics whitelist

pyproject.toml

@@ -234,8 +234,6 @@ module = [
     "sphinx.domains",
     "sphinx.domains.c",
     "sphinx.domains.cpp",
-    "sphinx.ext.autodoc",
-    "sphinx.ext.autodoc.importer",
     "sphinx.util.docfields",
     "sphinx.util.docutils",
     "sphinx.util.inspect",

sphinx/ext/autodoc/__init__.py

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def bool_option(arg: Any) -> bool:
     return True
 
 
-def merge_members_option(options: dict) -> None:
+def merge_members_option(options: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
     """Merge :private-members: and :special-members: options to the
     :members: option.
     """
@@ -1553,7 +1553,9 @@ class FunctionDocumenter(DocstringSignatureMixin, ModuleLevelDocumenter):  # typ
 
         return overload.replace(parameters=parameters)
 
-    def annotate_to_first_argument(self, func: Callable, typ: type) -> Callable | None:
+    def annotate_to_first_argument(
+        self, func: Callable[..., Any], typ: type
+    ) -> Callable[..., Any] | None:
         """Annotate type hint to the first argument of function if needed."""
         try:
             sig = inspect.signature(func, type_aliases=self.config.autodoc_type_aliases)
@@ -2538,7 +2540,9 @@ class MethodDocumenter(DocstringSignatureMixin, ClassLevelDocumenter):  # type:
 
         return overload.replace(parameters=parameters)
 
-    def annotate_to_first_argument(self, func: Callable, typ: type) -> Callable | None:
+    def annotate_to_first_argument(
+        self, func: Callable[..., Any], typ: type
+    ) -> Callable[..., Any] | None:
         """Annotate type hint to the first argument of function if needed."""
         try:
             sig = inspect.signature(func, type_aliases=self.config.autodoc_type_aliases)
@@ -3104,7 +3108,7 @@ class PropertyDocumenter(DocstringStripSignatureMixin, ClassLevelDocumenter):  #
         except ValueError:
             pass
 
-    def _get_property_getter(self) -> Callable | None:
+    def _get_property_getter(self) -> Callable[..., Any] | None:
         if safe_getattr(self.object, 'fget', None):  # property
             return self.object.fget
         if safe_getattr(self.object, 'func', None):  # cached_property

sphinx/ext/autodoc/importer.py

@@ -30,19 +30,23 @@ from sphinx.util.inspect import (
 )
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from collections.abc import Callable, Iterator, Mapping
+    from collections.abc import Iterator, Mapping
     from types import ModuleType
-    from typing import Any
+    from typing import Any, Protocol
 
     from sphinx.ext.autodoc import ObjectMember
 
+    class _AttrGetter(Protocol):
+        def __call__(self, obj: Any, name: str, default: Any = ..., /) -> Any: ...
+
+
 _NATIVE_SUFFIXES: frozenset[str] = frozenset({'.pyx', *EXTENSION_SUFFIXES})
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def _filter_enum_dict(
     enum_class: type[Enum],
-    attrgetter: Callable[[Any, str, Any], Any],
+    attrgetter: _AttrGetter,
     enum_class_dict: Mapping[str, object],
 ) -> Iterator[tuple[str, type, Any]]:
     """Find the attributes to document of an enumeration class.
@@ -241,7 +245,7 @@ def import_object(
     modname: str,
     objpath: list[str],
     objtype: str = '',
-    attrgetter: Callable[[Any, str], Any] = safe_getattr,
+    attrgetter: _AttrGetter = safe_getattr,
 ) -> Any:
     if objpath:
         logger.debug('[autodoc] from %s import %s', modname, '.'.join(objpath))
@@ -330,7 +334,7 @@ class Attribute(NamedTuple):
 def get_object_members(
     subject: Any,
     objpath: list[str],
-    attrgetter: Callable,
+    attrgetter: _AttrGetter,
     analyzer: ModuleAnalyzer | None = None,
 ) -> dict[str, Attribute]:
     """Get members and attributes of target object."""
@@ -403,7 +407,7 @@ def get_object_members(
 
 
 def get_class_members(
-    subject: Any, objpath: Any, attrgetter: Callable, inherit_docstrings: bool = True
+    subject: Any, objpath: Any, attrgetter: _AttrGetter, inherit_docstrings: bool = True
 ) -> dict[str, ObjectMember]:
     """Get members and attributes of target class."""
     from sphinx.ext.autodoc import INSTANCEATTR, ObjectMember