Allow type aliases in runtime context #8779
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Fixes #5354
This PR allows using type aliases in runtime context and instead gives the an
object
type (which is the best type that we know). The new error messages are less specific, but the old logic caused annoying false positives for various ORMs that use non-annotation syntax, and for runtime type validation tools.While working on this I found a minor bug in
object_or_any_from_type()
that returnedAny
forUnion[int, Any]
while it should beobject
.