}

    @Override
    public Comparator<? super C> comparator() {
      return columnComparator();
    }

    int compare(Object a, Object b) {
      // pretend we can compare anything
      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
      Comparator<Object> cmp = (Comparator<Object>) comparator();
      return cmp.compare(a, b);
    }

    boolean rangeContains(@Nullable Object o) {

```Python
commons: Annotated[dict, Depends(common_parameters)]
```

But because we are using `Annotated`, we can store that `Annotated` value in a variable and use it in multiple places:

{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial001_02_an_py310.py hl[12,16,21] *}

/// tip

 * directly; please see {@link com.google.common.collect.testing.MapTestSuiteBuilder}.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.
@SuppressWarnings("JUnit4ClassUsedInJUnit3")
public class MapIsEmptyTester<K, V> extends AbstractMapTester<K, V> {

/**
 * Testers for {@link ListMultimap#replaceValues(Object, Iterable)}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.
@SuppressWarnings("JUnit4ClassUsedInJUnit3")

import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Optional features of classes derived from {@code Multimap}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // maybe avoidable if we rework the whole package?
@GwtCompatible
public enum MultimapFeature implements Feature<Multimap> {
  VALUE_COLLECTIONS_SUPPORT_ITERATOR_REMOVE;

  private final Set<Feature<? super Multimap>> implied;

import org.junit.Ignore;

/**
 * Tests for {@link SetMultimap#replaceValues}.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.
@SuppressWarnings("JUnit4ClassUsedInJUnit3")
public class SetMultimapReplaceValuesTester<K, V>

 * please see {@link com.google.common.collect.testing.ListTestSuiteBuilder}.
 *
 * @author Chris Povirk
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.
@SuppressWarnings("JUnit4ClassUsedInJUnit3")
public class ListGetTester<E> extends AbstractListTester<E> {

  private static void assertFailsToDecode(
      BaseEncoding encoding, String cannotDecode, @Nullable String expectedMessage) {
    // We use this somewhat weird pattern with an enum for each assertion we want to make as a way
    // of dealing with the fact that one of the assertions is @GwtIncompatible but we don't want to
    // have to have duplicate @GwtIncompatible test methods just to make that assertion.

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Optional features of classes derived from {@code List}.
 *
 * @author George van den Driessche
 */
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // maybe avoidable if we rework the whole package?
@GwtCompatible
public enum ListFeature implements Feature<List> {
  SUPPORTS_SET,
  SUPPORTS_ADD_WITH_INDEX(CollectionFeature.SUPPORTS_ADD),

 * be invoked directly; please see {@link MultisetTestSuiteBuilder}.
 *
 * @author Chris Povirk
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Ignore("test runners must not instantiate and run this directly, only via suites we build")
// @Ignore affects the Android test runner, which respects JUnit 4 annotations on JUnit 3 tests.
@SuppressWarnings("JUnit4ClassUsedInJUnit3")