Use annotations from the standard library

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This is the preferred way to annotate starting from Python 3.9. All changes are auto-fixed by ruff

• closes #xxxx (Replace xxxx with the GitHub issue number)
• Tests added and passed if fixing a bug or adding a new feature
• All code checks passed.
• Added type annotations to new arguments/methods/functions.
• Added an entry in the latest doc/source/whatsnew/vX.X.X.rst file if fixing a bug or adding a new feature.

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apparently, there are some difference between typing.Type and type when Type[T] works as a Generic, so I'll close the PR

[Dr-Irv]

apparently, there are some difference between typing.Type and type when Type[T] works as a Generic, so I'll close the PR

I don't think that was your issue. typing.Type is deprecated, so Type[T] can be replaced with type[T]. Looking at the logs of the tests, you failed to get rid of all references to type_t throughout the source, and if you do that, you may be able to resurrect this.

[tqa236]

thanks for the comment, @Dr-Irv. I changed and tested it locally and it leads to a lot of other errors. Fixing them all would be tough so I'll try to see if there's a way to fix a subset of that first.