Unable to make generic subclass using type variable with value restriction

Bug Report

Mypy reports some strange false positive errors when I try to define a generic subclass of a generic class where the type variable has a value restriction.

To Reproduce

I made this minimal example to reproduce the bug:

from typing import Generic, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T", str, int)


class GenericSuperClass(Generic[T]):
    def __init__(self, value: T) -> None:
        # mypy complains if self.value is not annotated, for some reason
        self.value: T = value


class GenericSubClass(GenericSuperClass[T]):
    def __init__(self, value: T, flag: bool) -> None:
        super().__init__(value)
        self.flag = flag


instance = GenericSubClass("string", True)
reveal_type(instance.value)

This example is a bit simple, of course, and does not make use of the value restriction. But you could imagine that there is some logic here that assumes T is either a str or an int.

Expected Behavior

I would expect the above example to not report any errors with Mypy, and I would expect Mypy to infer that self.value is of type T.

I expect the revealed type to be builtins.str.

Actual Behavior

Mypy reports the following errors:

testing_inheriting_generics.py:14: error: Argument 1 to "__init__" of "GenericSuperClass" has incompatible type "str"; expected "T"
testing_inheriting_generics.py:14: error: Argument 1 to "__init__" of "GenericSuperClass" has incompatible type "int"; expected "T"
testing_inheriting_generics.py:19: note: Revealed type is 'builtins.str*'
Found 2 errors in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Additionally, if self.value is not annotated, Mypy reports the error testing_inheriting_generics.py:9: error: Need type annotation for 'value'

The revealed type is correct, but I believe the errors are false positives?

If I replace T = TypeVar("T", str, int) with T = TypeVar("T"), everything works as expected, but then I would not be able to assume that T is either a str or an int.

Your Environment

• Mypy version used: mypy 0.812
• Mypy command-line flags: none
• Mypy configuration options from mypy.ini (and other config files):

  [mypy]
  disallow_untyped_calls = True
  warn_redundant_casts = True
  warn_return_any = True
  warn_unused_configs = True
  warn_unused_ignores = True
  
  [mypy-responses.*]
  ignore_missing_imports = True
  

• Python version used: Python 3.9.1
• Operating system and version: macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Commencez par le reproducteur minimal dans testing_inheriting_generics.py et exécutez mypy avec la configuration Python 3.9 indiquée. Suivez la vérification du TypeVar à valeurs restreintes à travers GenericSubClass et GenericSuperClass. Le travail est terminé lorsque les erreurs de constructeur faussement positives et l’erreur d’annotation d’attribut inutile ont disparu, tandis que reveal_type indique builtins.str.