[Python] type hinting a function that takes the return type as parameter

Is there a way to type hint a function that takes as argument its return type? I naively tried to do this:

# NOTE:
# This code does not work!
#
# If I define `ret_type = TypeVar("ret_type")` it becomes syntactically
# correct, but type hinting is still broken.
#
def mycoerce(data: Any, ret_type: type) -> ret_type
return ret_type(data)

a = mycoerce("123", int) # desired: a type hinted to int
b = mycoerce("123", float) # desired: b type hinted to float


but it doesn't work.

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