From f56386c547edd005af89916aba3cf646d500a3a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krrish Dholakia <krrishdholakia@berri.ai>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:41:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] style(guardrails): use dict | None over Optional[dict] to
 satisfy UP045 budget

Co-Authored-By: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py b/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
index 7373becc3d6..b9ea2f72398 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/custom_guardrail.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def _guardrail_log_containers(request_data: dict) -> tuple:
     (deduplicated by identity) rather than only the client one.
     """
 
-    def _ensure_dict(key: str) -> Optional[dict]:
+    def _ensure_dict(key: str) -> "dict | None":
         if key not in request_data:
             return None
         if request_data[key] is None: