Type narrowing fails for union of iterable and dictionary when using `isinstance(x, Iterable)` in a conditional

Bug Report

When using Union[Iterable[int], Dict[str, int]] together with isinstance(x, Iterable) in a conditional, the narrowing of the type does not work as expected. The previously correctly narrowed type is reverted to the un-narrowed type inside the branch.

To Reproduce

from typing import Dict, Iterable, Union


def test_iterable(x: Union[Iterable[int], Dict[str, int]]) -> Iterable[int]:
    if isinstance(x, dict):
        return [1, 2, 3]
    reveal_type(x)  # typing.Iterable[builtins.int]
    if isinstance(x, Iterable):
        reveal_type(x)  # Union[typing.Iterable[builtins.int], builtins.dict[builtins.str, builtins.int]]
        return x  # mypy falsely returns an error here

Expected Behavior

The type of x should be correctly narrowed down to Iterable[int].

Actual Behavior

Running mypy returns:

example.py:10: error: Incompatible return value type (got "Union[Iterable[int], Dict[str, int]]", expected "Iterable[int]")
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

The problem persists even if the second if is changed to elif.

Your Environment

I used a clean virtual environment to test, only mypy was installed.

• Mypy version used: 0.971
• Python version used: 3.9.5

Inizia con il reproducer in example.py ed esegui mypy su di esso per confermare l’errore segnalato con l’unione e i controlli isinstance. Segui il comportamento del restringimento dei tipi finché il ramo non segnala Iterable[int] come previsto, quindi verifica che l’esempio termini senza l’errore di restituzione incompatibile.