Extend accessible types in certain variable APIs

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
reverse-engineering

Research direction

Locate get_var_definitions and get_var_uses alongside get_ssa_var_definitions and get_ssa_var_uses, then compare how their accepted variable types are declared. The work is done when the regular-variable APIs accept the corresponding XXXLevelILVar types consistently with the SSA APIs; no specific files or tests are named in the issue.

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Description

Component: Python API Effort: Trivial Impact: Low

What is the feature you'd like to have?
Some ssa variable APIs accept SSAVariable or XXXLevelILVarSsa (get_ssa_var_definitions, get_ssa_var_uses), meanwhile same APIs for regular variables only accept Variable (get_var_definitions, get_var_uses). I'd like to have this functions accepting XXXLevelILVar type as well.

Is your feature request related to a problem?
no

Are any alternative solutions acceptable?
yep, it's just a QoL

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