Remove docstring as comment. It's over-specific (pytest-mypy) but also any user of mypy is probably familiar that mypy doesn't handle conditional imports elegantly.

Author: jaraco

importlib_metadata/_compat.py

@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@
 try:
     from typing import Protocol
 except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    """
-    pytest-mypy complains here because:
-    error: Incompatible import of "Protocol" (imported name has type
-    "typing_extensions._SpecialForm", local name has type "typing._SpecialForm")
-    """
     from typing_extensions import Protocol  # type: ignore