mypy does not deduce more specific type of generic based on isinstance of attribute

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Issue type
Feature
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Research direction

Start with the reproducer in test.py and run it with mypy to confirm the reported error. Investigate how isinstance checks on attributes interact with generic type narrowing; done means the example can pass Foo[Union[int, str]] to handle_foo_int after the check without the incompatible-type error.

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Description

false-positive feature priority-2-low topic-type-narrowing

The following code:

from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Generic, TypeVar, Union


T_co = TypeVar("T_co", covariant=True)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Foo(Generic[T_co]):
    bar: T_co


def handle_foo_int(foo: Foo[int]) -> None:
    pass


def handle_foo(foo: Foo[Union[int, str]]) -> None:
    if isinstance(foo.bar, int):
        handle_foo_int(foo)

Results in the following error from mypy:

$ mypy test.py
test.py:17: error: Argument 1 to "handle_foo_int" has incompatible type "Foo[Union[int, str]]"; expected "Foo[int]"

If foo.bar is an int, it seems to me that it should imply that foo is a Foo[int]. Is there a way to get mypy to deduce that?

I tested this on 0.761 and 0.770+dev.7af3191246c17a8580acd3b6336f35b02de85e7e.

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