Type hint for a file or file-like object?

Use either the typing.TextIO or typing.BinaryIO types, for files opened in text mode or binary mode respectively.

From the docs:

class typing.IO

Wrapper namespace for I/O stream types.

This defines the generic type IO[AnyStr] and aliases TextIO and BinaryIO for respectively IO[str] and IO[bytes]. These representing the types of I/O streams such as returned by open().