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no error for `collections.abc.MutableMapping` is not subscriptable

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Description

from collections.abc import MutableMapping

MutableMapping[int, int]

mypy python-version 3.6 test.py: Success: no issues found in 1 source file
python test.py:

TypeError: 'ABCMeta' object is not subscriptable

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Reproduce the example from test.py with mypy configured for Python 3.6, then trace how subscriptions of collections.abc.MutableMapping are analyzed. Done means the shown code no longer receives a clean Success result when the runtime raises the reported TypeError.

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python
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tooling
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