Specialized methods on generic classes

[Tinche]

Bug Report

Let's say I have a generic class G.

from __future__ import annotations

from collections.abc import Sized
from typing import Generic, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")

class G(Generic[T]):
    pass

I want to have a single method on this class that's only legal for a subset of T.

If I want to limit it to, say, int, it works:

class G(Generic[T]):
    def test(self: G[int]) -> G[int]:
        return self

G[int]().test()  # Works, as it should
G[str]().test()  # Error, as it should

But if I want to limit it to, say, a protocol like Sized, I get a false negative:

S = TypeVar("S", bound=Sized)

class G(Generic[T]):
    def test(self: G[S]) -> G[S]:
        return self


G[int]().test()  # False negative - works, but it shouldn't

This is a pity, since it'd unlock some cool features I was working on vis-a-vis using attrs attributes. Are there any workarounds? Would this be handled by intersection types maybe?

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