Believe more __new__ return types

[hauntsaninja]

Fixes #1020 (comment) Surprisingly popular comment on a closed issue.

We still issue the warning, but we do trust the return type instead of overruling it.

Fixes #14471. Fixes #8330.
We avoid fixing #15182 for now.

Co-authored-by: ikonst

[hauntsaninja]

There's an issue where we turn TypeType's into CallableType, but the type_obj of CallableType just looks at the return type of the constructor. So this doesn't work as expected:

class A:
    def __new__(cls) -> int: raise

class B(A):
    @classmethod
    def foo(cls) -> int: raise

reveal_type(B.foo())

[Viicos]

Thanks so much @hauntsaninja, couldn't get this far due to limited knowledge of the mypy internals

[ikonst]

we fish around for the return type in CallableType.type_object

Where do we do this? This function certainly didn't, going for simple .ret_type

[hauntsaninja]

I clarified the comment a little bit. type_object also just uses ret_type. Also, thanks for the suggestion to use bound_args, I added you as a co-author of this PR!

[github-actions]

Diff from mypy_primer, showing the effect of this PR on open source code:

steam.py (https://github.com/Gobot1234/steam.py)
- steam/client.py:1324: error: Invalid self argument "type[TradeOffer[Any, Any, Any]]" to attribute function "_from_history" with type "Callable[[type[TradeOffer[MovedItem[UserT], MovedItem[ClientUser], UserT]], ConnectionState, TradeOfferHistoryTrade, Sequence[Description]], TradeOffer[MovedItem[UserT], MovedItem[ClientUser], UserT]]"  [misc]
+ steam/client.py:1324: error: Invalid self argument "type[TradeOffer[ReceivingAssetT, SendingAssetT, UserT]]" to attribute function "_from_history" with type "Callable[[type[TradeOffer[MovedItem[UserT], MovedItem[ClientUser], UserT]], ConnectionState, TradeOfferHistoryTrade, Sequence[Description]], TradeOffer[MovedItem[UserT], MovedItem[ClientUser], UserT]]"  [misc]

pyinstrument (https://github.com/joerick/pyinstrument)
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:105: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "faint"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:105: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "end"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:174: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "end"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:182: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "end"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:184: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "faint"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:184: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "end"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:195: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "red"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:197: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "yellow"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:199: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "green"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:201: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "bright_green"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:201: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "faint"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:205: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "bg_dark_blue_255"  [attr-defined]
- pyinstrument/renderers/console.py:205: error: "type[object]" has no attribute "white_255"  [attr-defined]

pandera (https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera)
+ pandera/api/pandas/model.py:469: error: "type[DataFrameBase[Any]]" has no attribute "Config"  [attr-defined]
+ tests/strategies/test_strategies.py:951: error: Need type annotation for "sample_data"  [var-annotated]
+ tests/dask/test_dask.py:28: error: Need type annotation for "ddf"  [var-annotated]
+ tests/dask/test_dask.py:28: note: Error code "var-annotated" not covered by "type: ignore" comment
+ tests/dask/test_dask.py:31: error: Need type annotation for "ddf"  [var-annotated]
+ tests/dask/test_dask.py:31: note: Error code "var-annotated" not covered by "type: ignore" comment

[ikonst]

Maybe you can

Suggested change

	ret_type = bound_arg.copy_modified(args=ret_type.args)
	ret_type = bound_arg.copy_modified()

if you change checkexpr.py's apply_generic_arguments to expand bound_args (not sure if it's correct to do...):

 return callable.copy_modified(
     ret_type=expand_type(callable.ret_type, id_to_type),
+    bound_args=[
+        expand_type(ba, id_to_type) if ba is not None else None
+        for ba in callable.bound_args
+    ],
     variables=remaining_tvars,
     type_guard=type_guard,
 )

[ilevkivskyi]

TBH I don't like this. This introduces some hack(s) that can backfire unexpectedly in "regular" cases to support a truly weird (even if somewhat common) use case.

[hauntsaninja]

Yeah, it's a little icky :-( I'm curious what "regular" cases you think this makes problematic? I do think it's something we should support, so would like to find a way forward. E.g. it came up again yesterday in python/typeshed#10662 (comment)

I'd also definitely be open to removing this back compat hack https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/16020/files#diff-1dce7e2a19559e2ff4e08fd46877b87c9cfec3cb5e6d465157788542948e11e4R206-R208 . It does result in a few mypy_primer hits, but they're technically correct.

[ilevkivskyi]

I'm curious what "regular" cases you think this makes problematic?

I think various operations with class objects, like type applications, subtyping/inference against them, member access on them etc. Also TBH I don't even remember why do we need bound_args, but I will not be surprised if various default visitors don't handle them correctly (because they are so rarely used). So relying on some important information being stored there if quite dangerous.

[ikonst]

I'd also rather have the type in a specialized attribute than bound_args[0]. Maintenance-wise it's cheaper to add another attribute than to add semantics to bound_args[0].

[Viicos]

Do you think the following use case with generics will be supported?

from typing import Generic, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")

class A(Generic[T]):
   # Having `T` returned at runtime would only be possible with a metaclass.
   # This is a hack that should most probably be in an `if TYPE_CHECKING` block
   # To describe the runtime behaviour of the metaclass' `__call__` method for example.  
    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs) -> T:
        ...

class Model:
    pass

reveal_type(A[Model]())  # Type of "A[Model]()" is "Model"

class B(A[Model]):
    pass

reveal_type(B())  # Type of "B()" is "Model"

This is a workaround for FactoryBoy/factory_boy#903 (comment), and could probably be used for any situation where we want to take into account the return type of __call__ (#14122).

pyright supports it.

[JukkaL]

I agree with other comments that using bound_args doesn't look like something we want to do. I think storing the real self type in a new attribute might be a better approach. All type operations should be updated to do something reasonable with the attribute.

It seems like the above should also fix the issue that no error is currently reported here, and perhaps other related issues:

class C:
    def __new__(self) -> D:
        return D()

class D(C):
    x: int

C.x  # No Error, but fails at runtime

We'd use use the new attribute when looking up class attributes.

[jorenham]

@hauntsaninja thanks for this PR! This makes it possible to correctly type builtins.reversed, see python/typeshed#11645 and python/typeshed#11646