Is this the way to reproduce behavior of a C++ template with a return type?

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I have a function that returns different types coming from elsewhere. In C++ I could declare such function and call it as follows.

template <typename T> T fn();
int i = fn<int>();
const char *cp = fn<const char*>();

I'm trying to achieve similar behavior in Python with this code. Would this be the intended way to do so or there is a more straightforward way to call a generic function with an explicit type in Python?

T = TypeVar("T")
def fn(C: Type[T])->T:
    ...

i: int = fn(int)
s: str = fn(str)

Thanks