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singledispatchmethod decorated method fails with unknown method register

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Description

I played with an update of mypy from 0.931 to 0.971. The new version fails with error: "Callable[..., bool]" has no attribute "register"
The code is written oddly because of known Python issue https://bugs.python.org/issue41987 , the interpreter has no issue with it.

from functools import singledispatchmethod

class Issue:
  @singledispatchmethod
  def __contains__(self, other) -> bool:
      return True

@Issue.__contains__.register
def _(self, other: Issue) -> bool:
    return False
$ mypy issue.py
issue.py:12: error: "Callable[..., bool]" has no attribute "register"
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

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Start by running the issue.py reproducer with mypy and tracing how functools.singledispatchmethod is modeled, particularly the access to Issue.contains.register. The fix is complete when this example type-checks without the reported error and coverage prevents the regression.

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Tech stack
python
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devtools
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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