Issues with solving value constrained type var in presence of Any

[donn]

Bug Report

In 1.11.0, classes that inherit from os.PathLike could be used with os.path methods. As of 3.12, these methods claim to accept "any object implementing the os.PathLike protocol". However, in 1.12.0, mypy emits an error.

To Reproduce

import os


class MyPath(os.PathLike):
    def __init__(self, path: str):
        super().__init__()
        self.path = path

    def __fspath__(self):
        return self.path


print(os.path.abspath(MyPath(".")))

Expected Behavior

Unless I'm missing something, MyPath should be valid to pass, no?

Actual Behavior

pathlike.py:13: error: Value of type variable "AnyStr" of "abspath" cannot be "MyPath | Any"

Your Environment

• Mypy version used: 1.12.0
• Mypy command-line flags: N/A
• Mypy configuration options from mypy.ini (and other config files): N/A
• Python version used: 3.12

[hauntsaninja]

Bisects to #17458 , probably caused by python/typeshed#12208
Are you interested in opening a PR to typeshed reverting that change?

Note explicitly inheriting from os.PathLike[str] will fix.

[Avasam]

Looks like the same change may have broken Python 3.8 support of passing a StrPath to these methods. I know 3.8 just went EOL, but I thought I'd let others know in case they also get the Value of type variable "AnyStr" of "abspath" cannot be "Union[str, PathLike[Any], Any]" [type-var] error on Python 3.8.
Edit: See my other comment below

Setuptools failure: pypa/setuptools#4688 & https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/actions/runs/11389961011/job/31690481419?pr=4688#step:9:68

[hauntsaninja]

Are you interested in picking up reverting that typeshed PR?

[Avasam]

Nevermind, after failing to replicate in a typeshed test, and further investigation, mine was an issue with a setuptools declaration that was revealed by mypy 1.12
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/89b44013c79d2295ac0941e91b6904c0ce5522ba/setuptools/_path.py#L14-L17

if sys.version_info >= (3, 9):
    StrPath: TypeAlias = Union[str, os.PathLike[str]]  #  Same as _typeshed.StrPath
else:
    StrPath: TypeAlias = Union[str, os.PathLike]

Changing to:

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    StrPath: TypeAlias = Union[str, os.PathLike[str]]  #  Same as _typeshed.StrPath
else:
    # Python 3.8 support
    StrPath: TypeAlias = Union[str, os.PathLike]

Which explains why I was only seeing this on 3.8.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't see my case as a regression, but rather a mypy finding a missing generic param it didn't see before.

[Avasam]

For OP's issue and another related regression I found in setuptools: python/typeshed#12837

[hauntsaninja]

For the purposes of making further changes to mypy, here's a repro that's independent of abspath in typeshed:

# mypy: disable-error-code=empty-body
import os
from typing import AnyStr

class MyPath(os.PathLike):
    def __init__(self, path: str):
        self.path = path

    def __fspath__(self):
        return self.pat

def abspath(path: os.PathLike[AnyStr] | AnyStr) -> AnyStr: ...

reveal_type(abspath(MyPath(".")))

[hauntsaninja]

1.12.1 reverts the typeshed change, so there is no regression. Underlying issue still remains, so changing title. Possibly same thing as #11880

(Also linking that #3644 was the fix that led to the change in typeshed being attempted)