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possibly-undefined false negative for variable annotation

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Description

Reported by KotlinIsland in #16609

# mypy: enable-error-code="possibly-undefined"

def foo() -> None:
    a: int
    print(a)

https://mypy-play.net/?mypy=latest&python=3.12&gist=a044519fd87d51e6028a236f02bcb9cb

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Research direction

Reproduce the annotated-local example in the linked mypy-play case with possibly-undefined enabled, then trace the checker path that handles variable annotations and undefined-use analysis. Done means the example reports that a may be undefined at print(a), with a regression test covering this case.

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Tech stack
python
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devtools
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
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