mypy doesn't understand dict contstruction
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Description
from typing import Any, Callable, List, Mapping, Tuple, TypeVar
U = TypeVar('U', bound=Mapping[str, Any])
def f(dict_factory: Callable[[List[Tuple[str, Any]]], U] = dict) -> U:
return dict_factory([('a', 1)])
prints
main.py:6: error: Incompatible default for argument "dict_factory" (default has type "Type[Dict[Any, Any]]", argument has type "Callable[[List[Tuple[Any, Any]]], U]")
This is from trying to annotate dataclasses.asdict.
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Research direction
Start with the provided example in main.py and reproduce the incompatible-default error. Then trace mypy’s handling of the dict default against the TypeVar-bound Mapping signature and compare it with the dataclasses.asdict annotation goal. Done means the example type-checks without that error while preserving the intended return type.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
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- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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