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attrs deviation from PEP 681

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Description

According to the Pylance developers attrs deviates from PEP 681 in the way it treats kw_only in field override
https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4670

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Research direction

Start by reading the issue and the linked Pylance report at microsoft/pylance-release#4670 to understand the expected PEP 681 behavior for kw_only field overrides. Then locate the attrs implementation and tests covering field overrides; done means attrs matches the specified behavior with regression coverage.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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