## Summary
Add support for `typing.Union` in implicit type aliases / in value
position.
## Typing conformance tests
Two new tests are passing
## Ecosystem impact
* The 2k new `invalid-key` diagnostics on pydantic are caused by
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1479#issuecomment-3513854645.
* Everything else I've checked is either a known limitation (often
related to type narrowing, because union types are often narrowed down
to a subset of options), or a true positive.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Summary
Fix https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/664
This PR adds support for storing attributes in comprehension scopes (any
eager scope.)
For example in the following code we infer type of `z` correctly:
```py
class C:
def __init__(self):
[None for self.z in range(1)]
reveal_type(C().z) # previously [unresolved-attribute] but now shows Unknown | int
```
The fix works by adjusting the following logics:
To identify if an attriute is an assignment to self or cls we need to
check the scope is a method. To allow comprehension scopes here we skip
any eager scope in the check.
Also at this stage the code checks if self or the first method argument
is shadowed by another binding that eager scope to prevent this:
```py
class D:
g: int
class C:
def __init__(self):
[[None for self.g in range(1)] for self in [D()]]
reveal_type(C().g) # [unresolved-attribute]
```
When determining scopes that attributes might be defined after
collecting all the methods of the class the code also returns any
decendant scope that is eager and only has eager parents until the
method scope.
When checking reachability of a attribute definition if the attribute is
defined in an eager scope we use the reachability of the first non eager
scope which must be a method. This allows attributes to be marked as
reachable and be seen.
There are also which I didn't add support for:
```py
class C:
def __init__(self):
def f():
[None for self.z in range(1)]
f()
reveal_type(C().z) # [unresolved-attribute]
```
In the above example we will not even return the comprehension scope as
an attribute scope because there is a non eager scope (`f` function)
between the comprehension and the `__init__` method
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
## Summary
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1409
This PR allows `Final` instance attributes to be initialized in
`__init__` methods, as mandated by the Python typing specification (PEP
591). Previously, ty incorrectly prevented this initialization, causing
false positive errors.
The fix checks if we're inside an `__init__` method before rejecting
Final attribute assignments, allowing assignments during
instance initialization while still preventing reassignment elsewhere.
## Test Plan
- Added new test coverage in `final.md` for the reported issue with
`Self` annotations
- Updated existing tests that were incorrectly expecting errors
- All 278 mdtest tests pass
- Manually tested with real-world code examples
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1487
This one is a true extension of non-standard semantics, and is therefore
a certified Hot Take we might conclude is simply a Bad Take (let's see
what ecosystem tests say...).
By resolving `.` and the LHS of the from import during semantic
indexing, we can check if the LHS is a submodule of `.`, and handle
`from whatever.thispackage.x.y import z` exactly like we do `from .x.y
import z`.
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1484
This manifested as an error when inferring the type of a PEP-695 generic
class via its constructor parameters:
```py
class D[T, U]:
@overload
def __init__(self: "D[str, U]", u: U) -> None: ...
@overload
def __init__(self, t: T, u: U) -> None: ...
def __init__(self, *args) -> None: ...
# revealed: D[Unknown, str]
# SHOULD BE: D[str, str]
reveal_type(D("string"))
```
This manifested because `D` is inferred to be bivariant in both `T` and
`U`. We weren't seeing this in the equivalent example for legacy
typevars, since those default to invariant. (This issue also showed up
for _covariant_ typevars, so this issue was not limited to bivariance.)
The underlying cause was because of a heuristic that we have in our
current constraint solver, which attempts to handle situations like
this:
```py
def f[T](t: T | None): ...
f(None)
```
Here, the `None` argument matches the non-typevar union element, so this
argument should not add any constraints on what `T` can specialize to.
Our previous heuristic would check for this by seeing if the argument
type is a subtype of the parameter annotation as a whole — even if it
isn't a union! That would cause us to erroneously ignore the `self`
parameter in our constructor call, since bivariant classes are
equivalent to each other, regardless of their specializations.
The quick fix is to move this heuristic "down a level", so that we only
apply it when the parameter annotation is a union. This heuristic should
go away completely 🤞 with the new constraint solver.
This loses any ability to have "per-function" implicit submodule
imports, to avoid the "ok but now we need per-scope imports" and "ok but
this should actually introduce a global that only exists during this
function" problems. A simple and clean implementation with no weird
corners.
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1482
This rips out the previous implementation in favour of a new
implementation with 3 rules:
- **froms are locals**: a `from..import` can only define locals, it does
not have global
side-effects. Specifically any submodule attribute `a` that's implicitly
introduced by either
`from .a import b` or `from . import a as b` (in an `__init__.py(i)`) is
a local and not a
global. If you do such an import at the top of a file you won't notice
this. However if you do
such an import in a function, that means it will only be function-scoped
(so you'll need to do
it in every function that wants to access it, making your code less
sensitive to execution
order).
- **first from first serve**: only the *first* `from..import` in an
`__init__.py(i)` that imports a
particular direct submodule of the current package introduces that
submodule as a local.
Subsequent imports of the submodule will not introduce that local. This
reflects the fact that
in actual python only the first import of a submodule (in the entire
execution of the program)
introduces it as an attribute of the package. By "first" we mean "the
first time in this scope
(or any parent scope)". This pairs well with the fact that we are
specifically introducing a
local (as long as you don't accidentally shadow or overwrite the local).
- **dot re-exports**: `from . import a` in an `__init__.pyi` is
considered a re-export of `a`
(equivalent to `from . import a as a`). This is required to properly
handle many stubs in the
wild. Currently it must be *exactly* `from . import ...`.
This implementation is intentionally limited/conservative (notably,
often requiring a from import to be relative). I'm going to file a ton
of followups for improvements so that their impact can be evaluated
separately.
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/133
## Summary
Detect usages of implicit `self` in property getters, which allows us to
treat their signature as being generic.
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1502
## Typing conformance
Two new type assertions that are succeeding.
## Ecosystem results
Mostly look good. There are a few new false positives related to a bug
with constrained typevars that is unrelated to the work here. I reported
this as https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1503.
## Test Plan
Added regression tests.
## Summary
Add support for `Optional` and `Annotated` in implicit type aliases
part of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/221
## Typing conformance changes
New expected diagnostics.
## Ecosystem
A lot of true positives, some known limitations unrelated to this PR.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Summary
This PR adds extra validation for `isinstance()` and `issubclass()`
calls that use `UnionType` instances for their second argument.
According to typeshed's annotations, any `UnionType` is accepted for the
second argument, but this isn't true at runtime: at runtime, all
elements in the `UnionType` must either be class objects or be `None` in
order for the `isinstance()` or `issubclass()` call to reliably succeed:
```pycon
% uvx python3.14
Python 3.14.0 (main, Oct 10 2025, 12:54:13) [Clang 20.1.4 ] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from typing import LiteralString
>>> import types
>>> type(LiteralString | int) is types.UnionType
True
>>> isinstance(42, LiteralString | int)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<python-input-5>", line 1, in <module>
isinstance(42, LiteralString | int)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/alexw/Library/Application Support/uv/python/cpython-3.14.0-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.14/typing.py", line 559, in __instancecheck__
raise TypeError(f"{self} cannot be used with isinstance()")
TypeError: typing.LiteralString cannot be used with isinstance()
```
## Test Plan
Added mdtests/snapshots
When checking whether a constraint set is satisfied, if a typevar has a
non-fully-static upper bound or constraint, we are free to choose any
materialization that makes the check succeed.
In non-inferable positions, we have to show that the constraint set is
satisfied for all valid specializations, so it's best to choose the most
restrictive materialization, since that minimizes the set of valid
specializations that have to pass.
In inferable positions, we only have to show that the constraint set is
satisfied for _some_ valid specializations, so it's best to choose the
most permissive materialization, since that maximizes our chances of
finding a specialization that passes.
## Summary
Add support for `Literal` types in implicit type aliases.
part of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/221
## Ecosystem analysis
This looks good to me, true positives and known problems.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests.
## Summary
This PR adds support for understanding the legacy definition and PEP 695
definition for `ParamSpec`.
This is still very initial and doesn't really implement any of the
semantics.
Part of https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/157
## Test Plan
Add mdtest cases.
## Ecosystem analysis
Most of the diagnostics in `starlette` are due to the fact that ty now
understands `ParamSpec` is not a `Todo` type, so the assignability check
fails. The code looks something like:
```py
class _MiddlewareFactory(Protocol[P]):
def __call__(self, app: ASGIApp, /, *args: P.args, **kwargs: P.kwargs) -> ASGIApp: ... # pragma: no cover
class Middleware:
def __init__(
self,
cls: _MiddlewareFactory[P],
*args: P.args,
**kwargs: P.kwargs,
) -> None:
self.cls = cls
self.args = args
self.kwargs = kwargs
# ty complains that `ServerErrorMiddleware` is not assignable to `_MiddlewareFactory[P]`
Middleware(ServerErrorMiddleware, handler=error_handler, debug=debug)
```
There are multiple diagnostics where there's an attribute access on the
`Wrapped` object of `functools` which Pyright also raises:
```py
from functools import wraps
def my_decorator(f):
@wraps(f)
def wrapper(*args, **kwds):
return f(*args, **kwds)
# Pyright: Cannot access attribute "__signature__" for class "_Wrapped[..., Unknown, ..., Unknown]"
Attribute "__signature__" is unknown [reportAttributeAccessIssue]
# ty: Object of type `_Wrapped[Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown]` has no attribute `__signature__` [unresolved-attribute]
wrapper.__signature__
return wrapper
```
There are additional diagnostics that is due to the assignability checks
failing because ty now infers the `ParamSpec` instead of using the
`Todo` type which would always succeed. This results in a few
`no-matching-overload` diagnostics because the assignability checks
fail.
There are a few diagnostics related to
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/491 where there's a variable
which is either a bound method or a variable that's annotated with
`Callable` that doesn't contain the instance as the first parameter.
Another set of (valid) diagnostics are where the code hasn't provided
all the type variables. ty is now raising diagnostics for these because
we include `ParamSpec` type variable in the signature. For example,
`staticmethod[Any]` which contains two type variables.
This PR carries over some of the `has_relation_to` logic for comparing a
typevar with itself. A typevar will specialize to the same type if it's
mentioned multiple times, so it is always assignable to and a subtype of
itself. (Note that typevars can only specialize to fully static types.)
This is also true when the typevar appears in a union on the right-hand
side, or in an intersection on the left-hand side. Similarly, a typevar
is always disjoint from its negation, so when a negated typevar appears
on the left-hand side, the constraint set is never satisfiable.
(Eventually this will allow us to remove the corresponding clauses from
`has_relation_to`, but that can't happen until more of #20093 lands.)
## Summary
Splitting this one out from https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/21210. This is also something that should be made obselete by the new constraint solver, but is easy enough to fix now.
## Summary
Allow values of type `None` in type expressions. The [typing
spec](https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/annotations.html#type-and-annotation-expressions)
could be more explicit on whether this is actually allowed or not, but
it seems relatively harmless and does help in some use cases like:
```py
try:
from module import MyClass
except ImportError:
MyClass = None # ty: ignore
def f(m: MyClass):
pass
```
## Test Plan
Updated tests, ecosystem check.
## Summary
A lot of the bidirectional inference work relies on `dict` not being
assignable to `TypedDict`, so I think it makes sense to add this before
fully implementing https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1387.
## Summary
Add support for implicit type aliases that use PEP 604 unions:
```py
IntOrStr = int | str
reveal_type(IntOrStr) # UnionType
def _(int_or_str: IntOrStr):
reveal_type(int_or_str) # int | str
```
## Typing conformance
The changes are either removed false positives, or new diagnostics due
to known limitations unrelated to this PR.
## Ecosystem impact
Spot checked, a mix of true positives and known limitations.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests.
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1053
## Summary
Other type checkers prioritize a submodule over a package `__getattr__`
in `from mod import sub`, even though the runtime precedence is the
other direction. In effect, this is making an implicit assumption that a
module `__getattr__` will not handle (that is, will raise
`AttributeError`) for names that are also actual submodules, rather than
shadowing them. In practice this seems like a realistic assumption in
the ecosystem? Or at least the ecosystem has adapted to it, and we need
to adapt this precedence also, for ecosystem compatibility.
The implementation is a bit ugly, precisely because it departs from the
runtime semantics, and our implementation is oriented toward modeling
runtime semantics accurately. That is, `__getattr__` is modeled within
the member-lookup code, so it's hard to split "member lookup result from
module `__getattr__`" apart from other member lookup results. I did this
via a synthetic `TypeQualifier::FROM_MODULE_GETATTR` that we attach to a
type resulting from a member lookup, which isn't beautiful but it works
well and doesn't introduce inefficiency (e.g. redundant member lookups).
## Test Plan
Updated mdtests.
Also added a related mdtest formalizing our support for a module
`__getattr__` that is explicitly annotated to accept a limited set of
names. In principle this could be an alternative (more explicit) way to
handle the precedence problem without departing from runtime semantics,
if the ecosystem would adopt it.
### Ecosystem analysis
Lots of removed diagnostics which are an improvement because we now
infer the expected submodule.
Added diagnostics are mostly unrelated issues surfaced now because we
previously had an earlier attribute error resulting in `Unknown`; now we
correctly resolve the module so that earlier attribute error goes away,
we get an actual type instead of `Unknown`, and that triggers a new
error.
In scipy and sklearn, the module `__getattr__` which we were respecting
previously is un-annotated so returned a forgiving `Unknown`; now we
correctly see the actual module, which reveals some cases of
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/133 that were previously hidden
(`scipy/optimize/__init__.py` [imports `from
._tnc`](eff82ca575/scipy/optimize/__init__.py (L429)).)
---------
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1368
## Summary
Add support for patterns like this, where a type alias to a literal type
(or union of literal types) is used to subscript `typing.Literal`:
```py
type MyAlias = Literal[1]
def _(x: Literal[MyAlias]): ...
```
This shows up in the ecosystem report for PEP 613 type alias support.
One interesting case is an alias to `bool` or an enum type. `bool` is an
equivalent type to `Literal[True, False]`, which is a union of literal
types. Similarly an enum type `E` is also equivalent to a union of its
member literal types. Since (for explicit type aliases) we infer the RHS
directly as a type expression, this makes it difficult for us to
distinguish between `bool` and `Literal[True, False]`, so we allow
either one to (or an alias to either one) to appear inside `Literal`,
where other type checkers allow only the latter.
I think for implicit type aliases it may be simpler to support only
types derived from actually subscripting `typing.Literal`, though, so I
didn't make a TODO-comment commitment here.
## Test Plan
Added mdtests, including TODO-filled tests for PEP 613 and implicit type
aliases.
### Conformance suite
All changes here are positive -- we now emit errors on lines that should
be errors. This is a side effect of the new implementation, not the
primary purpose of this PR, but it's still a positive change.
### Ecosystem
Eliminates one ecosystem false positive, where a PEP 695 type alias for
a union of literal types is used to subscript `typing.Literal`.
## Summary
Adds type inference for list/dict/set comprehensions, including
bidirectional inference:
```py
reveal_type({k: v for k, v in [("a", 1), ("b", 2)]}) # dict[Unknown | str, Unknown | int]
squares: list[int | None] = [x for x in range(10)]
reveal_type(squares) # list[int | None]
```
## Ecosystem impact
I did spot check the changes and most of them seem like known
limitations or true positives. Without proper bidirectional inference,
we saw a lot of false positives.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Summary
Discussion with @ibraheemdev clarified that
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/21168 was incorrect. In a case of
failed inference of a dict literal as a `TypedDict`, we should store the
context-less inferred type of the dict literal as the type of the dict
literal expression itself; the fallback to declared type should happen
at the level of the overall assignment definition.
The reason the latter isn't working yet is because currently we
(wrongly) consider a homogeneous dict type as assignable to a
`TypedDict`, so we don't actually consider the assignment itself as
failed. So the "bug" I observed (and tried to fix) will naturally be
fixed by implementing TypedDict assignability rules.
Rollback https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/21168 except for the
tests, and modify the tests to include TODOs as needed.
## Test Plan
Updated mdtests.
The parser currently uses single quotes to wrap tokens. This is
inconsistent with the rest of ruff/ty, which use backticks.
For example, see the inconsistent diagnostics produced in this simple
example: https://play.ty.dev/0a9d6eab-6599-4a1d-8e40-032091f7f50f
Consistently wrapping tokens in backticks produces uniform diagnostics.
Following the style decision of #723, in #2889 some quotes were already
switched into backticks.
This is also in line with Rust's guide on diagnostics
(https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/diagnostics.html#diagnostic-structure):
> When code or an identifier must appear in a message or label, it
should be surrounded with backticks
## Summary
In general, when we have an invalid assignment (inferred assigned type
is not assignable to declared type), we fall back to inferring the
declared type, since the declared type is a more explicit declaration of
the programmer's intent. This also maintains the invariant that our
inferred type for a name is always assignable to the declared type for
that same name. For example:
```py
x: str = 1
reveal_type(x) # revealed: str
```
We weren't following this pattern for dictionary literals inferred (via
type context) as a typed dictionary; if the literal was not valid for
the annotated TypedDict type, we would just fall back to the normal
inferred type of the dict literal, effectively ignoring the annotation,
and resulting in inferred type not assignable to declared type.
## Test Plan
Added mdtest assertions.
## Summary
The solver is currently order-dependent, and will choose a supertype
over the exact type if it appears earlier in the list of constraints. We
could be smarter and try to choose the most precise subtype, but I
imagine this is something the new constraint solver will fix anyways,
and this fixes the issue showing up on
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/21070.
This PR adds a new `satisfied_by_all_typevar` method, which implements
one of the final steps of actually using these dang constraint sets.
Constraint sets exist to help us check assignability and subtyping of
types in the presence of typevars. We construct a constraint set
describing the conditions under which assignability holds between the
two types. Then we check whether that constraint set is satisfied for
the valid specializations of the relevant typevars (which is this new
method).
We also add a new `ty_extensions.ConstraintSet` method so that we can
test this method's behavior in mdtests, before hooking it up to the rest
of the specialization inference machinery.
## Summary
We currently perform a subtyping check instead of the intended subclass
check (and the subtyping check is confusingly named `is_subclass_of`).
This showed up in https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/21070.
## Summary
Before this PR, we would emit diagnostics like "Invalid key access" for
a TypedDict literal with invalid key, which doesn't make sense since
there's no "access" in that case. This PR just adjusts the wording to be
more general, and adjusts the documentation of the lint rule too.
I noticed this in the playground and thought it would be a quick fix. As
usual, it turned out to be a bit more subtle than I expected, but for
now I chose to punt on the complexity. We may ultimately want to have
different rules for invalid subscript vs invalid TypedDict literal,
because an invalid key in a TypedDict literal is low severity: it's a
typo detector, but not actually a type error. But then there's another
wrinkle there: if the TypedDict is `closed=True`, then it _is_ a type
error. So would we want to separate the open and closed cases into
separate rules, too? I decided to leave this as a question for future.
If we wanted to use separate rules, or use specific wording for each
case instead of the generalized wording I chose here, that would also
involve a bit of extra work to distinguish the cases, since we use a
generic set of functions for reporting these errors.
## Test Plan
Added and updated mdtests.
This is a second take at the implicit imports approach, allowing `from .
import submodule` in an `__init__.pyi` to create the
`mypackage.submodule` attribute everyhere.
This implementation operates inside of the
available_submodule_attributes subsystem instead of as a re-export rule.
The upside of this is we are no longer purely syntactic, and absolute
from imports that happen to target submodules work (an intentional
discussed deviation from pyright which demands a relative from import).
Also we don't re-export functions or classes.
The downside(?) of this is star imports no longer see these attributes
(this may be either good or bad. I believe it's not a huge lift to make
it work with star imports but it's some non-trivial reworking).
I've also intentionally made `import mypackage.submodule` not trigger
this rule although it's trivial to change that.
I've tried to cover as many relevant cases as possible for discussion in
the new test file I've added (there are some random overlaps with
existing tests but trying to add them piecemeal felt confusing and
weird, so I just made a dedicated file for this extension to the rules).
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/133
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## Summary
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1427
This PR fixes a regression introduced in alpha.24 where non-dataclass
children of generic dataclasses lost generic type parameter information
during `__init__` synthesis.
The issue occurred because when looking up inherited members in the MRO,
the child class's `inherited_generic_context` was correctly passed down,
but `own_synthesized_member()` (which synthesizes dataclass `__init__`
methods) didn't accept this parameter. It only used
`self.inherited_generic_context(db)`, which returned the parent's
context instead of the child's.
The fix threads the child's generic context through to the synthesis
logic, allowing proper generic type inference for inherited dataclass
constructors.
## Test Plan
- Added regression test for non-dataclass inheriting from generic
dataclass
- Verified the exact repro case from the issue now works
- All 277 mdtest tests passing
- Clippy clean
- Manually verified with Python runtime, mypy, and pyright - all accept
this code pattern
## Verification
Tested against multiple type checkers:
- ✅ Python runtime: Code works correctly
- ✅ mypy: No issues found
- ✅ pyright: 0 errors, 0 warnings
- ✅ ty alpha.23: Worked (before regression)
- ❌ ty alpha.24: Regression
- ✅ ty with this fix: Works correctly
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: David Peter <mail@david-peter.de>
