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Mypy errors out with attrs, generics and inheritance #15658

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LeBoucEtMistere opened this issue Jul 13, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #15700
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Mypy errors out with attrs, generics and inheritance #15658

LeBoucEtMistere opened this issue Jul 13, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #15700
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bug mypy got something wrong topic-attrs

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Bug Report

When checking python code that uses attrs dataclasses, Generic classes and inheritance, mypy fails to infer the actual type of a TypeVar.

Swapping attrs for std dataclasses removes the error.

Simplifying inheritance chain also removes the error.

I suspect this might be an issue in the mypy-attr plugin.

To Reproduce
can't put a playground link since it doesn't support attrs sorry.

import abc
from typing import Generic, TypeVar

from attr import frozen


# define a hierarchy of State types
class BaseState(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    ...


T_State = TypeVar("T_State", bound=BaseState, covariant=True)


@frozen()
class JumpState(BaseState):
    start: int


# define a hierarchy of signals


@frozen()
class AbstractBaseSignal(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    pass


T_Signal = TypeVar("T_Signal", bound=AbstractBaseSignal)


@frozen()
class SignalA(Generic[T_State], AbstractBaseSignal, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    state: T_State


@frozen()
class SignalAA(SignalA[T_State], metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
    pass


# this signal specializes the generic type to a well defined JumpState type
class SignalAAA(SignalAA[JumpState]):
    pass


def foo(s: SignalAAA) -> None:
    reveal_type(s)  # SignalAAA
    reveal_type(s.state)  # T_State instead of JumpState
    reveal_type(s.state.start)  # start is not found on T_State

if you swap all the frozen decorators for dataclass it suddendly works, s.state is correctly inferred as a JumpState.

if you remove the class SignalAA and have SignalAAA inherit directly from SignalA (i.e. short-circuit the inheritance chain) it works correctly as well.

Expected Behavior

I would expect this code to typecheck, especially since it does with standard dataclasses. I suspect a problem with the mypy-attrs plugin.

Actual Behavior

mypy output on this example:

type_test.py:47: note: Revealed type is "type_test.SignalAAA"
type_test.py:49: note: Revealed type is "T_State`1"
type_test.py:50: error: "T_State" has no attribute "start"  [attr-defined]
type_test.py:50: note: Revealed type is "Any"
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Your Environment

  • Mypy version used: issue confirmed at least starting from 0.991 to latest version. It was working fine with version 0.910.
  • Mypy command-line flags: None
  • Mypy configuration options from mypy.ini (and other config files):
[mypy]
python_version = 3.9
warn_unused_configs = True
warn_unused_ignores = True
warn_return_any = True
disallow_untyped_defs = True
disallow_incomplete_defs = True
follow_imports = silent
ignore_missing_imports = True
  • Python version used: 3.9
  • attrs package version: 23.1.0 (bug reproduced in 22.1.0 as well)

The bug was observed first while updating our mypy version from 0.910 to 0.991.

@LeBoucEtMistere LeBoucEtMistere added the bug mypy got something wrong label Jul 13, 2023
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ikonst commented Jul 18, 2023

Thanks for the version range. git bisect points to 20b0b9b (merged in #12590) as to where it starts (@JukkaL for insights).

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ikonst commented Jul 18, 2023

FWIW, replacing attr.frozen with attrs.mutable or attrs.define also "fixes" it 😕

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Thanks for the quick fix, much appreciated ! Do you know when will the next mypy release come out so that I can upgrade on my end and fix my code ?

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