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Charlie Marsh 9333f15433 [ty] Fix match exhaustiveness for enum | None unions (#22290)
## Summary

If we match on an `TestEnum | None`, then when adding a case like
`~Literal[TestEnum.FOO]` (i.e., after `if value == TestEnum.FOO:
return`), we'd distribute `Literal[TestEnum.BAR]` on the entire builder,
creating `None & Literal[TestEnum.BAR]` which simplified to `Never`.
Instead, we should only expand to the remaining members for pieces of
the intersection that contain the enum.

Now, `(TestEnum | None) & ~Literal[TestEnum.FOO] &
~Literal[TestEnum.BAR]` correctly simplifies to `None` instead of
`Never`.

Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/2260.
2025-12-29 22:19:28 -05:00

7.9 KiB

Pattern matching

[environment]
python-version = "3.10"

With wildcard

def _(target: int):
    match target:
        case 1:
            y = 2
        case _:
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3]

Without wildcard

def _(target: int):
    match target:
        case 1:
            y = 2
        case 2:
            y = 3

    # revealed: Literal[2, 3]
    # error: [possibly-unresolved-reference]
    reveal_type(y)

Basic match

def _(target: int):
    y = 1
    y = 2

    match target:
        case 1:
            y = 3
        case 2:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3, 4]

Value match

A value pattern matches based on equality: the first case branch here will be taken if subject is equal to 2, even if subject is not an instance of int. We can't know whether C here has a custom __eq__ implementation that might cause it to compare equal to 2, so we have to consider the possibility that the case branch might be taken even though the type C is disjoint from the type Literal[2].

This leads us to infer Literal[1, 3] as the type of y after the match statement, rather than Literal[1]:

from typing import final

@final
class C:
    pass

def _(subject: C):
    y = 1
    match subject:
        case 2:
            y = 3
    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 3]

Class match

A case branch with a class pattern is taken if the subject is an instance of the given class, and all subpatterns in the class pattern match.

Without arguments

from typing import final

class Foo:
    pass

class FooSub(Foo):
    pass

class Bar:
    pass

@final
class Baz:
    pass

def _(target: FooSub):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case Baz():
            y = 2
        case Foo():
            y = 3
        case Bar():
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[3]

def _(target: FooSub):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case Baz():
            y = 2
        case Bar():
            y = 3
        case Foo():
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[3, 4]

def _(target: FooSub | str):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case Baz():
            y = 2
        case Foo():
            y = 3
        case Bar():
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 3, 4]

With arguments

from typing_extensions import assert_never
from dataclasses import dataclass

@dataclass
class Point:
    x: int
    y: int

class Other: ...

def _(target: Point):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case Point(0, 0):
            y = 2
        case Point(x=0, y=1):
            y = 3
        case Point(x=1, y=0):
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 2, 3, 4]

def _(target: Point):
    match target:
        case Point(x, y):  # irrefutable sub-patterns
            pass
        case _:
            assert_never(target)

def _(target: Point | Other):
    match target:
        case Point(0, 0):
            reveal_type(target)  # revealed: Point
        case Point(x=0, y=1):
            reveal_type(target)  # revealed: Point
        case Point(x=1, y=0):
            reveal_type(target)  # revealed: Point
        case Other():
            reveal_type(target)  # revealed: Other

Singleton match

Singleton patterns are matched based on identity, not equality comparisons or isinstance() checks.

from typing import Literal

def _(target: Literal[True, False]):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3]

def _(target: bool):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3]

def _(target: None):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[4]

def _(target: None | Literal[True]):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 4]

# bool is an int subclass
def _(target: int):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 2, 3]

def _(target: str):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case True:
            y = 2
        case False:
            y = 3
        case None:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1]

Matching on enums

from enum import Enum

class Answer(Enum):
    NO = 0
    YES = 1

def _(answer: Answer):
    y = 0
    match answer:
        case Answer.YES:
            reveal_type(answer)  # revealed: Literal[Answer.YES]
            y = 1
        case Answer.NO:
            reveal_type(answer)  # revealed: Literal[Answer.NO]
            y = 2

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 2]

Or match

A | pattern matches if any of the subpatterns match.

from typing import Literal, final

def _(target: Literal["foo", "baz"]):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case "foo" | "bar":
            y = 2
        case "baz":
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3]

def _(target: None):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case None | 3:
            y = 2
        case "foo" | 4 | True:
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2]

@final
class Baz:
    pass

def _(target: int | None | float):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case None | 3:
            y = 2
        case Baz():
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 2]

class Foo: ...

def _(target: None | Foo):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case Baz() | True | False:
            y = 2
        case int():
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 3]

as patterns

def _(target: int | str):
    y = 1

    match target:
        case 1 as x:
            y = 2
            reveal_type(x)  # revealed: @Todo(`match` pattern definition types)
        case "foo" as x:
            y = 3
            reveal_type(x)  # revealed: @Todo(`match` pattern definition types)
        case _:
            y = 4

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[2, 3, 4]

Guard with object that implements __bool__ incorrectly

class NotBoolable:
    __bool__: int = 3

def _(target: int, flag: NotBoolable):
    y = 1
    match target:
        # error: [unsupported-bool-conversion] "Boolean conversion is not supported for type `NotBoolable`"
        case 1 if flag:
            y = 2
        case 2:
            y = 3

    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[1, 2, 3]

Matching on enum | None without covering None

When matching on a union of an enum and None, code after the match should still be reachable if None is not covered by any case, even when all enum members are covered.

from enum import Enum

class Answer(Enum):
    YES = 1
    NO = 2

def _(answer: Answer | None):
    y = 0
    match answer:
        case Answer.YES:
            y = 1
        case Answer.NO:
            y = 2

    # The match is not exhaustive because None is not covered,
    # so y could still be 0
    reveal_type(y)  # revealed: Literal[0, 1, 2]

def _(answer: Answer | None):
    match answer:
        case Answer.YES:
            return 1
        case Answer.NO:
            return 2

    # Code here is reachable because None is not covered
    reveal_type(answer)  # revealed: None
    return 3

class Foo: ...

def _(answer: Answer | None):
    match answer:
        case Answer.YES:
            return
        case Answer.NO:
            return

    # New assignments after the match should not be `Never`
    x = Foo()
    reveal_type(x)  # revealed: Foo