pytype: drop the now useless assert

pytype: drop the now useless assert

As the imported types are now used by type annotation, these ugly assert are
no longer needed.

--- a/mercurial/branchmap.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/branchmap.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 )
 
 from typing import (
-    Any,
     Callable,
     Dict,
     Iterable,
@@ -40,19 +39,6 @@
     stringutil,
 )
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    Callable,
-    Dict,
-    Iterable,
-    List,
-    Optional,
-    Set,
-    Tuple,
-    Union,
-]
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from . import localrepo
 

--- a/mercurial/encoding.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/encoding.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -15,11 +15,8 @@
 from typing import (
     Any,
     Callable,
-    List,
     Text,
-    Type,
     TypeVar,
-    Union,
 )
 
 from . import (
@@ -30,10 +27,6 @@
 
 from .pure import charencode as charencodepure
 
-# keep pyflakes happy
-for t in (Any, Callable, List, Text, Type, Union):
-    assert t
-
 _Tlocalstr = TypeVar('_Tlocalstr', bound='localstr')
 
 charencode = policy.importmod('charencode')

--- a/mercurial/error.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/error.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import difflib
 
 from typing import (
-    Any,
     AnyStr,
     Iterable,
     List,
@@ -28,18 +27,6 @@
 from . import pycompat
 
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    AnyStr,
-    Iterable,
-    List,
-    Optional,
-    Sequence,
-    Union,
-]
-
-
 def _tobytes(exc) -> bytes:
     """Byte-stringify exception in the same way as BaseException_str()"""
     if not exc.args:

--- a/mercurial/i18n.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/i18n.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 import sys
 
 from typing import (
-    Callable,
     List,
 )
 
@@ -22,12 +21,6 @@
     pycompat,
 )
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Callable,
-    List,
-]
-
 # modelled after templater.templatepath:
 if getattr(sys, 'frozen', None) is not None:
     module = pycompat.sysexecutable

--- a/mercurial/logcmdutil.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/logcmdutil.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -48,20 +48,6 @@
     stringutil,
 )
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    Callable,
-    Dict,
-    Optional,
-    Sequence,
-    Tuple,
-]
-
-# keep pyflakes happy
-for t in (Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, Tuple):
-    assert t
-
 
 def getlimit(opts):
     """get the log limit according to option -l/--limit"""

--- a/mercurial/mail.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/mail.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -44,15 +44,6 @@
 )
 
 
-# keep pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    List,
-    Tuple,
-    Union,
-]
-
-
 class STARTTLS(smtplib.SMTP):
     """Derived class to verify the peer certificate for STARTTLS.
 

--- a/mercurial/pathutil.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/pathutil.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -23,14 +23,6 @@
 rustdirs = policy.importrust('dirstate', 'Dirs')
 parsers = policy.importmod('parsers')
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    Callable,
-    Iterator,
-    Optional,
-]
-
 
 def _lowerclean(s: bytes) -> bytes:
     return encoding.hfsignoreclean(s.lower())

--- a/mercurial/phases.py	Wed Dec 20 16:39:03 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/phases.py	Wed Dec 20 22:17:03 2023 +0100
@@ -132,18 +132,6 @@
     util,
 )
 
-# keeps pyflakes happy
-assert [
-    Any,
-    Callable,
-    Dict,
-    Iterable,
-    List,
-    Optional,
-    Set,
-    Tuple,
-]
-
 Phaseroots = Dict[int, Set[bytes]]
 
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING: