Shrink 'any-generics' whitelist for 'writers' module (#10867)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>

4 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dc0aa8a6c..70b44edaf 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -278,7 +278,6 @@ module = [
     "sphinx.search.*",
     "sphinx.testing.*",
     "sphinx.util.*",
-    "sphinx.writers.*",
 ]
 disallow_any_generics = false
 
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index c6c63828b..7e78ea2ed 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class LaTeXWriter(writers.Writer):
         ('Document class', ['--docclass'], {'default': 'manual'}),
         ('Author', ['--author'], {'default': ''}),
     ))
-    settings_defaults: dict = {}
+    settings_defaults: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
     output = None
 
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(SphinxTranslator):
 
         return ''.join(ret)
 
-    def render(self, template_name: str, variables: dict) -> str:
+    def render(self, template_name: str, variables: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
         renderer = LaTeXRenderer(latex_engine=self.config.latex_engine)
         for template_dir in self.config.templates_path:
             template = path.join(self.builder.confdir, template_dir,
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/texinfo.py b/sphinx/writers/texinfo.py
index 33ae2574b..1d72e4130 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/texinfo.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/texinfo.py
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ class TexinfoWriter(writers.Writer):
             ('Category', ['--texinfo-dir-category'], {'default':
                                                       'Miscellaneous'})))
 
-    settings_defaults: dict = {}
+    settings_defaults: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
-    output: str | None = None  # type: ignore[assignment]
+    output: str
 
     visitor_attributes = ('output', 'fragment')
 
@@ -391,8 +391,11 @@ class TexinfoTranslator(SphinxTranslator):
                           textwrap.wrap(desc, width=78 - offset))
         return s + wdesc.strip() + '\n'
 
-    def add_menu_entries(self, entries: list[str], reg: re.Pattern = re.compile(r'\s+---?\s+')
-                         ) -> None:
+    def add_menu_entries(
+        self,
+        entries: list[str],
+        reg: re.Pattern[str] = re.compile(r'\s+---?\s+'),
+    ) -> None:
         for entry in entries:
             name = self.node_names[entry]
             # special formatting for entries that are divided by an em-dash
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/text.py b/sphinx/writers/text.py
index ded21fb2f..7ac2359c8 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/text.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/text.py
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ def my_wrap(text: str, width: int = MAXWIDTH, **kwargs: Any) -> list[str]:
 class TextWriter(writers.Writer):
     supported = ('text',)
     settings_spec = ('No options here.', '', ())
-    settings_defaults: dict = {}
+    settings_defaults: dict[str, Any] = {}
 
     output: str = None
 
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ class TextWriter(writers.Writer):
 
 
 class TextTranslator(SphinxTranslator):
-    builder: TextBuilder = None
+    builder: TextBuilder
 
     def __init__(self, document: nodes.document, builder: TextBuilder) -> None:
         super().__init__(document, builder)