## Summary
Modify the (external) signature of instance methods such that the first
parameter uses `Self` unless it is explicitly annotated. This allows us
to correctly type-check more code, and allows us to infer correct return
types for many functions that return `Self`. For example:
```py
from pathlib import Path
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
reveal_type(Path(".config") / ".ty") # now Path, previously Unknown
def _(dt: datetime, delta: timedelta):
reveal_type(dt - delta) # now datetime, previously Unknown
```
part of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/159
## Performance
I ran benchmarks locally on `attrs`, `freqtrade` and `colour`, the
projects with the largest regressions on CodSpeed. I see much smaller
effects locally, but can definitely reproduce the regression on `attrs`.
From looking at the profiling results (on Codspeed), it seems that we
simply do more type inference work, which seems plausible, given that we
now understand much more return types (of many stdlib functions). In
particular, whenever a function uses an implicit `self` and returns
`Self` (without mentioning `Self` anywhere else in its signature), we
will now infer the correct type, whereas we would previously return
`Unknown`. This also means that we need to invoke the generics solver in
more cases. Comparing half a million lines of log output on attrs, I can
see that we do 5% more "work" (number of lines in the log), and have a
lot more `apply_specialization` events (7108 vs 4304). On freqtrade, I
see similar numbers for `apply_specialization` (11360 vs 5138 calls).
Given these results, I'm not sure if it's generally worth doing more
performance work, especially since none of the code modifications
themselves seem to be likely candidates for regressions.
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./ty_main check /home/shark/ecosystem/attrs` | 92.6 ± 3.6 | 85.9 |
102.6 | 1.00 |
| `./ty_self check /home/shark/ecosystem/attrs` | 101.7 ± 3.5 | 96.9 |
113.8 | 1.10 ± 0.06 |
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./ty_main check /home/shark/ecosystem/freqtrade` | 599.0 ± 20.2 |
568.2 | 627.5 | 1.00 |
| `./ty_self check /home/shark/ecosystem/freqtrade` | 607.9 ± 11.5 |
594.9 | 626.4 | 1.01 ± 0.04 |
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./ty_main check /home/shark/ecosystem/colour` | 423.9 ± 17.9 | 394.6
| 447.4 | 1.00 |
| `./ty_self check /home/shark/ecosystem/colour` | 426.9 ± 24.9 | 373.8
| 456.6 | 1.01 ± 0.07 |
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Ecosystem report
* apprise: ~300 new diagnostics related to problematic stubs in apprise
😩
* attrs: a new true positive, since [this
function](4e2c89c823/tests/test_make.py (L2135))
is missing a `@staticmethod`?
* Some legitimate true positives
* sympy: lots of new `invalid-operator` false positives in [matrix
multiplication](cf9f4b6805/sympy/matrices/matrixbase.py (L3267-L3269))
due to our limited understanding of [generic `Callable[[Callable[[T1,
T2], T3]], Callable[[T1, T2], T3]]` "identity"
types](cf9f4b6805/sympy/core/decorators.py (L83-L84))
of decorators. This is not related to type-of-self.
## Typing conformance results
The changes are all correct, except for
```diff
+generics_self_usage.py:50:5: error[invalid-assignment] Object of type `def foo(self) -> int` is not assignable to `(typing.Self, /) -> int`
```
which is related to an assignability problem involving type variables on
both sides:
```py
class CallableAttribute:
def foo(self) -> int:
return 0
bar: Callable[[Self], int] = foo # <- we currently error on this assignment
```
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Co-authored-by: Shaygan Hooshyari <sh.hooshyari@gmail.com>
This PR introduces a few related changes:
- We now keep track of each time a legacy typevar is bound in a
different generic context (e.g. class, function), and internally create
a new `TypeVarInstance` for each usage. This means the rest of the code
can now assume that salsa-equivalent `TypeVarInstance`s refer to the
same typevar, even taking into account that legacy typevars can be used
more than once.
- We also go ahead and track the binding context of PEP 695 typevars.
That's _much_ easier to track since we have the binding context right
there during type inference.
- With that in place, we can now include the name of the binding context
when rendering typevars (e.g. `T@f` instead of `T`)
We now correctly exclude legacy typevars from enclosing scopes when
constructing the generic context for a generic function.
more detail:
A function is generic if it refers to legacy typevars in its signature:
```py
from typing import TypeVar
T = TypeVar("T")
def f(t: T) -> T:
return t
```
Generic functions are allowed to appear inside of other generic
contexts. When they do, they can refer to the typevars of those
enclosing generic contexts, and that should not rebind the typevar:
```py
from typing import TypeVar, Generic
T = TypeVar("T")
U = TypeVar("U")
class C(Generic[T]):
@staticmethod
def method(t: T, u: U) -> None: ...
# revealed: def method(t: int, u: U) -> None
reveal_type(C[int].method)
```
This substitution was already being performed correctly, but we were
also still including the enclosing legacy typevars in the method's own
generic context, which can be seen via `ty_extensions.generic_context`
(which has been updated to work on generic functions and methods):
```py
from ty_extensions import generic_context
# before: tuple[T, U]
# after: tuple[U]
reveal_type(generic_context(C[int].method))
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
This primarily comes up with annotated `self` parameters in
constructors:
```py
class C[T]:
def __init__(self: C[int]): ...
```
Here, we want infer a specialization of `{T = int}` for a call that hits
this overload.
Normally when inferring a specialization of a function call, typevars
appear in the parameter annotations, and not in the argument types. In
this case, this is reversed: we need to verify that the `self` argument
(`C[T]`, as we have not yet completed specialization inference) is
assignable to the parameter type `C[int]`.
To do this, we simply look for a typevar/type in both directions when
performing inference, and apply the inferred specialization to argument
types as well as parameter types before verifying assignability.
As a wrinkle, this exposed that we were not checking
subtyping/assignability for function literals correctly. Our function
literal representation includes an optional specialization that should
be applied to the signature. Before, function literals were considered
subtypes of (assignable to) each other only if they were identical Salsa
objects. Two function literals with different specializations should
still be considered subtypes of (assignable to) each other if those
specializations result in the same function signature (typically because
the function doesn't use the typevars in the specialization).
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/370
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/100
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/258
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
