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Readable and writable binary files cause false positives #12246

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JukkaL opened this issue Feb 23, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #12254
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Readable and writable binary files cause false positives #12246

JukkaL opened this issue Feb 23, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #12254
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JukkaL commented Feb 23, 2022

This generates an error when using master, even though it doesn't generate error with mypy 0.931:

with open('x', 'rb') as f:
    s = f.read()
with open('y', 'wb') as f:  # Incompatible types in assignment
                            # (expression has type "BufferedWriter",
                            # variable has type "BufferedReader")
    f.write(s)

This is because of a typeshed/plugin change. The new types are better than what we had before, so any improvement should be in mypy itself. This seems worth fixing at least if the fix isn't too complex, since code like the above example is fairly common.

My first idea would be to create a separate scope for each with statement, so that the types of the two variables named f could be inferred independently. We could internally rename the different variables to make them distinct, similar to what we do when using --allow-redefinition.

If the variable is used outside the with statement, we may want to revert to the current behavior for backward compatibility, since renaming in this case would require much more complex logic. This is a bit ad hoc, but the case should be quite rare.

@JukkaL JukkaL added the bug mypy got something wrong label Feb 23, 2022
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JukkaL added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 25, 2022
Use renaming to allow two with statements to define the same variable
using incompatible types. The implementation is pretty simple-minded
and doesn't work in cases where there is even a hint of potential
ambiguity about which variant of a variable a reference targets, typically
due to functions.

This could be generalized to for statements in the future.

Fixes #12246.
adulau added a commit to hashlookup/hashlookup-forensic-analyser that referenced this issue May 7, 2022
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