ruff/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/semantic_index
David Peter 42f152108a
[ty] Generic types aliases (implicit and PEP 613) (#21553)
## Summary

Add support for generic PEP 613 type aliases and generic implicit type
aliases:
```py
from typing import TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")
ListOrSet = list[T] | set[T]

def _(xs: ListOrSet[int]):
    reveal_type(xs)  # list[int] | set[int]
```

closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1643
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1629
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1596
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/573
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/221

## Typing conformance

```diff
-aliases_explicit.py:52:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `list[int]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
-aliases_explicit.py:53:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `tuple[str, ...] | list[str]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of types.UnionType)`
-aliases_explicit.py:54:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `tuple[int, int, int, str]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
-aliases_explicit.py:56:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, /) -> str` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of typing.Callable)`
-aliases_explicit.py:59:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `int | str | None | list[list[int]]` does not match asserted type `int | str | None | list[@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)]`
```

New true negatives ✔️ 

```diff
+aliases_explicit.py:41:36: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
-aliases_explicit.py:57:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, str, /) -> None` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of typing.Callable)`
+aliases_explicit.py:57:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, str, /) -> None` does not match asserted type `(...) -> Unknown`
```

These require `ParamSpec`

```diff
+aliases_explicit.py:67:24: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+aliases_explicit.py:68:24: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+aliases_explicit.py:69:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_explicit.py:70:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_explicit.py:71:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_explicit.py:102:20: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
```

New true positives ✔️ 

```diff
-aliases_implicit.py:63:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `list[int]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
-aliases_implicit.py:64:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `tuple[str, ...] | list[str]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of types.UnionType)`
-aliases_implicit.py:65:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `tuple[int, int, int, str]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
-aliases_implicit.py:67:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, /) -> str` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of typing.Callable)`
-aliases_implicit.py:70:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `int | str | None | list[list[int]]` does not match asserted type `int | str | None | list[@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)]`
-aliases_implicit.py:71:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `list[bool]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
```

New true negatives ✔️ 

```diff
+aliases_implicit.py:54:36: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
-aliases_implicit.py:68:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, str, /) -> None` does not match asserted type `@Todo(Generic specialization of typing.Callable)`
+aliases_implicit.py:68:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `(int, str, str, /) -> None` does not match asserted type `(...) -> Unknown`
```

These require `ParamSpec`

```diff
+aliases_implicit.py:76:24: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+aliases_implicit.py:77:24: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+aliases_implicit.py:78:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_implicit.py:79:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_implicit.py:80:29: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 1, got 2
+aliases_implicit.py:81:25: error[invalid-type-arguments] Type `str` is not assignable to upper bound `int | float` of type variable `TFloat@GoodTypeAlias12`
+aliases_implicit.py:135:20: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
```

New true positives ✔️ 

```diff
+callables_annotation.py:172:19: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+callables_annotation.py:175:19: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+callables_annotation.py:188:25: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
+callables_annotation.py:189:25: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected 0, got 1
```

These require `ParamSpec` and `Concatenate`.

```diff
-generics_defaults_specialization.py:26:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, str]` does not match asserted type `SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, typing.TypeVar]`
+generics_defaults_specialization.py:26:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, str]` does not match asserted type `SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, DefaultStrT]`
```

Favorable diagnostic change ✔️ 

```diff
-generics_defaults_specialization.py:27:5: error[type-assertion-failure] Type `SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, bool]` does not match asserted type `@Todo(specialized generic alias in type expression)`
```

New true negative ✔️ 

```diff
-generics_defaults_specialization.py:30:1: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'SomethingWithNoDefaults[int, typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
+generics_defaults_specialization.py:30:15: error[invalid-type-arguments] Too many type arguments: expected between 0 and 1, got 2
```

Correct new diagnostic ✔️ 


```diff
-generics_variance.py:175:25: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:175:35: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Co[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:179:29: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:179:39: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:183:21: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Co[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:183:27: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Co[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:187:25: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Co[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:187:31: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:191:33: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:191:43: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Co[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:191:49: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:196:5: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:196:15: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
-generics_variance.py:196:25: error[non-subscriptable] Cannot subscript object of type `<class 'Contra[typing.TypeVar]'>` with no `__class_getitem__` method
```

One of these should apparently be an error, but not of this kind, so
this is good ✔️

```diff
-specialtypes_type.py:152:16: error[invalid-type-form] `typing.TypeVar` is not a generic class
-specialtypes_type.py:156:16: error[invalid-type-form] `typing.TypeVar` is not a generic class
```

Good, those were false positives. ✔️ 

I skipped the analysis for everything involving `TypeVarTuple`.

## Ecosystem impact

**[Full report with detailed
diff](https://david-generic-implicit-alias.ecosystem-663.pages.dev/diff)**

Previous iterations of this PR showed all kinds of problems. In it's
current state, I do not see any large systematic problems, but it is
hard to tell with 5k diagnostic changes.

## Performance

* There is a huge 4x regression in `colour-science/colour`, related to
[this large
file](https://github.com/colour-science/colour/blob/develop/colour/io/luts/tests/test_lut.py)
with [many assignments of hard-coded arrays (lists of lists) to
`np.NDArray`
types](83e754c8b6/colour/io/luts/tests/test_lut.py (L701-L781))
that we now understand. We now take ~2 seconds to check this file, so
definitely not great, but maybe acceptable for now.

## Test Plan

Updated and new Markdown tests
2025-11-28 20:38:24 +01:00
..
builder Rename Red Knot (#17820) 2025-05-03 19:49:15 +02:00
use_def [ty] more precise lazy scope place lookup (#19932) 2025-09-08 21:08:35 +00:00
ast_ids.rs [ty] Split `ScopedPlaceId` into `ScopedSymbolId` and `ScopedMemberId` (#19497) 2025-07-25 13:54:33 +02:00
builder.rs [ty] Implement patterns and typevars in the LSP (#21671) 2025-11-28 13:41:21 +00:00
definition.rs [ty] Generic types aliases (implicit and PEP 613) (#21553) 2025-11-28 20:38:24 +01:00
expression.rs [ty] Track heap usage of salsa structs (#19790) 2025-08-12 13:28:44 +02:00
member.rs [ty] Fix static assertion size check (#19814) 2025-08-07 13:38:16 -05:00
narrowing_constraints.rs [ty] Split `ScopedPlaceId` into `ScopedSymbolId` and `ScopedMemberId` (#19497) 2025-07-25 13:54:33 +02:00
place.rs [ty] Add version hint for failed stdlib attribute accesses (#20909) 2025-10-16 14:07:33 +00:00
predicate.rs [ty] Track heap usage of salsa structs (#19790) 2025-08-12 13:28:44 +02:00
re_exports.rs [ty] Fix panic for cyclic star imports (#21428) 2025-11-13 15:38:09 +01:00
reachability_constraints.rs [ty] Substitute for `typing.Self` when checking protocol members (#21569) 2025-11-24 14:05:09 -05:00
scope.rs [ty] display variance on hover over type variables (#20900) 2025-10-20 17:28:36 +00:00
symbol.rs [ty] name is parameter and global is a syntax error (#21312) 2025-11-14 18:15:34 +00:00
use_def.rs [ty] fix global symbol lookup from eager scopes (#21317) 2025-11-12 10:15:51 -08:00