False positive on re.compile as attrs converter

I've found what I think is a bug in mypy's attrs support.

# test.py
import re
import attr

@attr.s
class Test:
    foo = attr.ib(converter=re.compile)

test = Test("foo")

$ mypy test.py
test.py:8: error: Argument 1 to "Test" has incompatible type "str"; expected "Union[AnyStr, Pattern[AnyStr]]"

Unless I've completely misunderstood what AnyStr is for, I don't think that signature should throw on receiving a string.

I can't quite figure out if attrs or mypy is at fault here, but I can't get the same error to appear on re.compile when it's not being applied as a converter by attrs. Apologies if I've missed an obvious issue here.

Python v3.6.5
Mypy v0.610
Attrs v18.1.0

Start by reproducing the report with the shown test.py and compare mypy's handling of re.compile alone with its handling as an attrs converter. Trace the attrs converter type inference and the resulting constructor argument check. Done means Test("foo") is accepted without weakening valid converter typing.