From 77703ae5918ed4ce3665be8ac01216f132d91807 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aniruddha Maru <maru@levit.ai>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 11:34:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [simplejson] Make JSONEncoder.default return Any, matching
 json.JSONEncoder

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 stubs/simplejson/simplejson/encoder.pyi | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stubs/simplejson/simplejson/encoder.pyi b/stubs/simplejson/simplejson/encoder.pyi
index 9f82016fe917..726a9d0972c8 100644
--- a/stubs/simplejson/simplejson/encoder.pyi
+++ b/stubs/simplejson/simplejson/encoder.pyi
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import re
 from _typeshed import SupportsRichComparison
 from collections.abc import Callable, Iterator
 from typing import Any
-from typing_extensions import Never
 
 ESCAPE: re.Pattern[str]
 ESCAPE_ASCII: re.Pattern[str]
@@ -52,7 +51,7 @@ class JSONEncoder:
         iterable_as_array: bool = False,
     ) -> None: ...
     def encode(self, o: Any) -> str: ...
-    def default(self, o: Any) -> Never: ...
+    def default(self, o: Any) -> Any: ...
     def iterencode(self, o: Any) -> Iterator[str]: ...
 
 class JSONEncoderForHTML(JSONEncoder): ...