Overriding of methods with self types

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
compilers, devtools

Research direction

Start by reading the discussion in issue #2193 and the linked pull request comment, then determine the intended rules for overriding methods that use self types such as self: T. The issue is complete when those rules are agreed upon and the override checking behavior is implemented and validated.

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Description

priority-2-low topic-self-types

It's unclear how we should check overrides of methods that use self types (e.g. self: T). There is some discussion in #2193.

A relevant comment (but there are others): https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/2193#issuecomment-255558447

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