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Make TypeVars with only one constraint illegal - #2626
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At runtime, doing something like `T = TypeVar('T', str)` results in the
following exception:
TypeError: A single constraint is not allowed
However, mypy itself seems to ignore this particular error, which feels
incongruous.
This commit slightly tweaks the semanal phase to emit an error message
in this case to mirror the existing runtime behavior implemented in the
typing module.
This commit fixes some broken unit tests that appeared to have been using TypeVar incorrectly. This commit does not cause the entire test suite to pass due to existing errors within typeshed that need to be fixed first.
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According to the documentation in the typing module, TypeVars cannot have only a single constraint. Attempting to do so will actually result in an exception at runtime. (However, this error is currently ignored by mypy -- see python/mypy#2626 for a related pending pull request). This commit changes all instances of TypeVars using a single constraint (e.g. `T = TypeVar('T', Foo)`) to use bounds instead (e.g. `T = TypeVar('T', bound=Foo)`. This seems to be the correct fix for plistlib after reading the module docs, but it's less obvious this is correct for unittest. The unittest module originally had `_FT = TypeVar('_FT', Callable[[Any], Any])` -- an alternative fix would have been to do `_FT = Callable[[Any], Any]`. Although I'm not entirely sure what it means to have a bound be a Callable, I decided to make the assumption that the original authors probably meant to use TypeVars instead of type aliases for a reason (possibly to handle classes implementing `__call__`?)
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...well, I thought this would be a quick fix, but it turned out to be a little more involved then I expected. The tests are currently failing because typeshed is using single-constraint TypeVars in a few places. I have a pull request to fix this at python/typeshed#804. Once that's accepted and mypy syncs typeshed, I can rebase this pull request and hopefully that'll make the tests pass. |
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According to the documentation in the typing module, TypeVars cannot have only a single constraint. Attempting to do so will actually result in an exception at runtime. (However, this error is currently ignored by mypy -- see python/mypy#2626 for a related pending pull request). This commit changes all instances of TypeVars using a single constraint (e.g. `T = TypeVar('T', Foo)`) to use bounds instead (e.g. `T = TypeVar('T', bound=Foo)`. This seems to be the correct fix for plistlib after reading the module docs, but it's less obvious this is correct for unittest. The unittest module originally had `_FT = TypeVar('_FT', Callable[[Any], Any])` -- an alternative fix would have been to do `_FT = Callable[[Any], Any]`. Although I'm not entirely sure what it means to have a bound be a Callable, I decided to make the assumption that the original authors probably meant to use TypeVars instead of type aliases for a reason (possibly to handle classes implementing `__call__`?)
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I merged your PR in typeshed. |
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Can you do the typeshed sync in this PR? Then the tests will hopefully pass and we can merge it. |
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Sorry, there's a complication. See my comments in python/typeshed#804, which I am going to revert. :-( |
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…1118) Another attempt for #804, to unblock python/mypy#2626. There's a work-around here for python/mypy#1551.
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I guess I need to sync typeshed and then try again. |
But with synced typeshed.
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Whee! Finally this is merged. Sorry for the long delay! |
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@gvanrossum wow, I haven't had time to think about this at all this quarter -- I can't believe this actually got pushed through! Thanks! |
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At runtime, doing something like
T = TypeVar('T', str)results in the following exception:However, mypy itself seems to ignore this particular error, which feels incongruous.
This pull request slightly tweaks the semanal phase to emit an error message in this case to mirror the existing runtime behavior implemented in the typing module.