## Summary
Fixes a bug observed by @AlexWaygood where `C[Any] <: C[object]` should
hold for a class that is covariant in its type parameter (and similar
subtyping relations involving dynamic types for other variance
configurations).
## Test Plan
New and updated Markdown tests
Closesastral-sh/ty#456. Part of astral-sh/ty#994.
After all the foundational work, this is only a small change, but let's
see if it exposes any unresolved issues.
## Summary
Previously we held off from doing this because we weren't sure that it
was worth the added complexity cost. But our code has changed in the
months since we made that initial decision, and I think the structure of
the code is such that it no longer really leads to much added complexity
to add precise inference when unpacking a string literal or a bytes
literal.
The improved inference we gain from this has real benefits to users (see
the mypy_primer report), and this PR doesn't appear to have a
performance impact.
## Test plan
mdtests
## Summary
Support `as` patterns in reachability analysis:
```py
from typing import assert_never
def f(subject: str | int):
match subject:
case int() as x:
pass
case str():
pass
case _:
assert_never(subject) # would previously emit an error
```
Note that we still don't support inferring correct types for the bound
name (`x`).
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/928
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Summary
Implements proper reachability analysis and — in effect — exhaustiveness
checking for `match` statements. This allows us to check the following
code without any errors (leads to *"can implicitly return `None`"* on
`main`):
```py
from enum import Enum, auto
class Color(Enum):
RED = auto()
GREEN = auto()
BLUE = auto()
def hex(color: Color) -> str:
match color:
case Color.RED:
return "#ff0000"
case Color.GREEN:
return "#00ff00"
case Color.BLUE:
return "#0000ff"
```
Note that code like this already worked fine if there was a
`assert_never(color)` statement in a catch-all case, because we would
then consider that `assert_never` call terminal. But now this also works
without the wildcard case. Adding a member to the enum would still lead
to an error here, if that case would not be handled in `hex`.
What needed to happen to support this is a new way of evaluating match
pattern constraints. Previously, we would simply compare the type of the
subject expression against the patterns. For the last case here, the
subject type would still be `Color` and the value type would be
`Literal[Color.BLUE]`, so we would infer an ambiguous truthiness.
Now, before we compare the subject type against the pattern, we first
generate a union type that corresponds to the set of all values that
would have *definitely been matched* by previous patterns. Then, we
build a "narrowed" subject type by computing `subject_type &
~already_matched_type`, and compare *that* against the pattern type. For
the example here, `already_matched_type = Literal[Color.RED] |
Literal[Color.GREEN]`, and so we have a narrowed subject type of `Color
& ~(Literal[Color.RED] | Literal[Color.GREEN]) = Literal[Color.BLUE]`,
which allows us to infer a reachability of `AlwaysTrue`.
<details>
<summary>A note on negated reachability constraints</summary>
It might seem that we now perform duplicate work, because we also record
*negated* reachability constraints. But that is still important for
cases like the following (and possibly also for more realistic
scenarios):
```py
from typing import Literal
def _(x: int | str):
match x:
case None:
pass # never reachable
case _:
y = 1
y
```
</details>
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/99
## Test Plan
* I verified that this solves all examples from the linked ticket (the
first example needs a PEP 695 type alias, because we don't support
legacy type aliases yet)
* Verified that the ecosystem changes are all because of removed false
positives
* Updated tests
## Summary
Add more precise type inference for a limited set of `isinstance(…)`
calls, i.e. return `Literal[True]` if we can be sure that this is the
correct result. This improves exhaustiveness checking / reachability
analysis for if-elif-else chains with `isinstance` checks. For example:
```py
def is_number(x: int | str) -> bool: # no "can implicitly return `None` error here anymore
if isinstance(x, int):
return True
elif isinstance(x, str):
return False
# code here is now detected as being unreachable
```
This PR also adds a new test suite for exhaustiveness checking.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
### Ecosystem analysis
The removed diagnostics look good. There's [one
case](f52c4f1afd/torchvision/io/video_reader.py (L125-L143))
where a "true positive" is removed in unreachable code. `src` is
annotated as being of type `str`, but there is an `elif isinstance(src,
bytes)` branch, which we now detect as unreachable. And so the
diagnostic inside that branch is silenced. I don't think this is a
problem, especially once we have a "graying out" feature, or a lint that
warns about unreachable code.
