Using package multipledispatch, mypy gives error name already defined
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Description
Bug Report
Mypy reports errors when using package multipledispatch for overloading functions.
To Reproduce
from multipledispatch import dispatch
@dispatch(list, str)
def concatenate(a: list, b: str):
a.append(b)
return a
@dispatch(str, str)
def concatenate(a: str, b: str):
return a + b
@dispatch(str, int)
def concatenate(a: str, b: int):
return a + str(b)
@dispatch(int, str)
def concatenate(a: int, b: str):
return str(a) + b
print(concatenate(["a", "b"], "c"))
# ['a', 'b', 'c']
print(concatenate("Hello", "World"))
# HelloWorld
print(concatenate("a", 1))
# a1
print(concatenate(2, "b"))
# 2b
Expected Behavior
No errors
Actual Behavior
mypy multi.py
multi.py:10: error: Name "concatenate" already defined on line 4
multi.py:15: error: Name "concatenate" already defined on line 4
multi.py:20: error: Name "concatenate" already defined on line 4
(Write what happened.)
Your Environment
- Mypy version used: 0.910
- Python version used: 3.8.6
- Operating system and version: macOS 11.5.2
- Installed packages:
flake8==3.9.2
mccabe==0.6.1
multipledispatch==0.6.0
mypy==0.910
mypy-extensions==0.4.3
pycodestyle==2.7.0
pyflakes==2.3.1
six==1.16.0
toml==0.10.2
typing-extensions==3.10.0.2
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Research direction
Start by running the reported mypy multi.py example with the shown multipledispatch definitions and confirm the repeated-name diagnostics. Trace the name-checking path for these repeated function definitions and compare it with existing overload handling; done means the example type-checks without those errors while ordinary duplicate definitions remain diagnosed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100