Fix type hints in people.py

pittapi/people.py

@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
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 """
 
-from requests_html import HTMLSession
+from requests_html import HTMLSession, Element
+from typing import Any
 
 # Please note that find.pitt.edu will not accept more than 10 requests within a few minutes
 # It will time out if that happens
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@
 }
 
 
-def _parse_segments(person: dict, segments: list[str]) -> None:
+def _parse_segments(person: dict[str, Any], segments: list[Element]) -> None:
     label = None
     for segment in segments:
         if "class" in segment.attrs and "row-label" in segment.attrs["class"]:
@@ -60,19 +61,19 @@ def _parse_segments(person: dict, segments: list[str]) -> None:
                 person[label] = segment.text
 
 
-def get_person(query: str) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
+def get_person(query: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
     payload = {"search": query}
     session = HTMLSession()
     resp = session.post(PEOPLE_SEARCH_URL, data=payload)
-    if resp.text.__contains__("Too many people matched your criteria."):
-        return [{"ERROR": "Too many people matched your criteria."}]  # Return an error
+    if "Too many people matched your criteria." in resp.text:
+        return [{"ERROR": "Too many people matched your criteria."}]
     elements = resp.html.xpath("/html/div/section")
     result = []
     for entry in elements:
         name, *segments = entry.find("span")
         person = {"name": name.text}
         _parse_segments(person, segments)
         result.append(person)
-    if result == []:
-        return [{"ERROR": "No one found."}]  # Return an error
+    if not result:
+        return [{"ERROR": "No one found."}]
     return result