[crash] Fix crashes on python interpreter < 3.9

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Type of Changes

	Type
✓	🐛 Bug fix

Description

Closes #8161 @MarcSchmitzer we can add you as co-author if you want (need your commit email) :)

[mschmitzer]

@MarcSchmitzer we can add you as co-author if you want (need your commit email) :)

That would be cool. Commit email would be marc@solute.de

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #8163 (61f4f1e) into main (5c0084b) will not change coverage.
The diff coverage is 0.00%.

Additional details and impacted files

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[Pierre-Sassoulas]

Thank you for your help and congratulations on becoming a pylint contributor @MarcSchmitzer !

[Pierre-Sassoulas]

This part was not tested, it explains the crash. Should we blindly fix it or do you have a possible test in mind @DanielNoord ?

[DanielNoord]

Let's blindly fix. Can't be worse than current situation. I know this was pretty poorly tested code in general and the original fix is only because I made the typing stricter, which was already an improvement over previous state.

[github-actions]

🤖 According to the primer, this change has no effect on the checked open source code. 🤖🎉

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