David Peter 820a31af5d [red-knot] Attribute access and the descriptor protocol (#16416)
## Summary

* Attributes/method are now properly looked up on metaclasses, when
called on class objects
* We properly distinguish between data descriptors and non-data
descriptors (but we do not yet support them in store-context, i.e.
`obj.data_descr = …`)
* The descriptor protocol is now implemented in a single unified place
for instances, classes and dunder-calls. Unions and possibly-unbound
symbols are supported in all possible stages of the process by creating
union types as results.
* In general, the handling of "possibly-unbound" symbols has been
improved in a lot of places: meta-class attributes, attributes,
descriptors with possibly-unbound `__get__` methods, instance
attributes, …
* We keep track of type qualifiers in a lot more places. I anticipate
that this will be useful if we import e.g. `Final` symbols from other
modules (see relevant change to typing spec:
https://github.com/python/typing/pull/1937).
* Detection and special-casing of the `typing.Protocol` special form in
order to avoid lots of changes in the test suite due to new `@Todo`
types when looking up attributes on builtin types which have `Protocol`
in their MRO. We previously
looked up attributes in a wrong way, which is why this didn't come up
before.

closes #16367
closes #15966

## Context

The way attribute lookup in `Type::member` worked before was simply
wrong (mostly my own fault). The whole instance-attribute lookup should
probably never have been integrated into `Type::member`. And the
`Type::static_member` function that I introduced in my last descriptor
PR was the wrong abstraction. It's kind of fascinating how far this
approach took us, but I am pretty confident that the new approach
proposed here is what we need to model this correctly.

There are three key pieces that are required to implement attribute
lookups:

- **`Type::class_member`**/**`Type::find_in_mro`**: The
`Type::find_in_mro` method that can look up attributes on class bodies
(and corresponding bases). This is a partial function on types, as it
can not be called on instance types like`Type::Instance(…)` or
`Type::IntLiteral(…)`. For this reason, we usually call it through
`Type::class_member`, which is essentially just
`type.to_meta_type().find_in_mro(…)` plus union/intersection handling.
- **`Type::instance_member`**: This new function is basically the
type-level equivalent to `obj.__dict__[name]` when called on
`Type::Instance(…)`. We use this to discover instance attributes such as
those that we see as declarations on class bodies or as (annotated)
assignments to `self.attr` in methods of a class.
- The implementation of the descriptor protocol. It works slightly
different for instances and for class objects, but it can be described
by the general framework:
- Call `type.class_member("attribute")` to look up "attribute" in the
MRO of the meta type of `type`. Call the resulting `Symbol` `meta_attr`
(even if it's unbound).
- Use `meta_attr.class_member("__get__")` to look up `__get__` on the
*meta type* of `meta_attr`. Call it with `__get__(meta_attr, self,
self.to_meta_type())`. If this fails (either the lookup or the call),
just proceed with `meta_attr`. Otherwise, replace `meta_attr` in the
following with the return type of `__get__`. In this step, we also probe
if a `__set__` or `__delete__` method exists and store it in
`meta_attr_kind` (can be either "data descriptor" or "normal attribute
or non-data descriptor").
  - Compute a `fallback` type.
    - For instances, we use `self.instance_member("attribute")`
- For class objects, we use `class_attr =
self.find_in_mro("attribute")`, and then try to invoke the descriptor
protocol on `class_attr`, i.e. we look up `__get__` on the meta type of
`class_attr` and call it with `__get__(class_attr, None, self)`. This
additional invocation of the descriptor protocol on the fallback type is
one major asymmetry in the otherwise universal descriptor protocol
implementation.
- Finally, we look at `meta_attr`, `meta_attr_kind` and `fallback`, and
handle various cases of (possible) unboundness of these symbols.
- If `meta_attr` is bound and a data descriptor, just return `meta_attr`
- If `meta_attr` is not a data descriptor, and `fallback` is bound, just
return `fallback`
- If `meta_attr` is not a data descriptor, and `fallback` is unbound,
return `meta_attr`
- Return unions of these three possibilities for partially-bound
symbols.

This allows us to handle class objects and instances within the same
framework. There is a minor additional detail where for instances, we do
not allow the fallback type (the instance attribute) to completely
shadow the non-data descriptor. We do this because we (currently) don't
want to pretend that we can statically infer that an instance attribute
is always set.

Dunder method calls can also be embedded into this framework. The only
thing that changes is that *there is no fallback type*. If a dunder
method is called on an instance, we do not fall back to instance
variables. If a dunder method is called on a class object, we only look
it up on the meta class, never on the class itself.

## Test Plan

New Markdown tests.
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Ruff

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An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

Shows a bar chart with benchmark results.

Linting the CPython codebase from scratch.

  • 10-100x faster than existing linters (like Flake8) and formatters (like Black)
  • 🐍 Installable via pip
  • 🛠️ pyproject.toml support
  • 🤝 Python 3.13 compatibility
  • ⚖️ Drop-in parity with Flake8, isort, and Black
  • 📦 Built-in caching, to avoid re-analyzing unchanged files
  • 🔧 Fix support, for automatic error correction (e.g., automatically remove unused imports)
  • 📏 Over 800 built-in rules, with native re-implementations of popular Flake8 plugins, like flake8-bugbear
  • ⌨️ First-party editor integrations for VS Code and more
  • 🌎 Monorepo-friendly, with hierarchical and cascading configuration

Ruff aims to be orders of magnitude faster than alternative tools while integrating more functionality behind a single, common interface.

Ruff can be used to replace Flake8 (plus dozens of plugins), Black, isort, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, autoflake, and more, all while executing tens or hundreds of times faster than any individual tool.

Ruff is extremely actively developed and used in major open-source projects like:

...and many more.

Ruff is backed by Astral. Read the launch post, or the original project announcement.

Testimonials

Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI:

Ruff is so fast that sometimes I add an intentional bug in the code just to confirm it's actually running and checking the code.

Nick Schrock, founder of Elementl, co-creator of GraphQL:

Why is Ruff a gamechanger? Primarily because it is nearly 1000x faster. Literally. Not a typo. On our largest module (dagster itself, 250k LOC) pylint takes about 2.5 minutes, parallelized across 4 cores on my M1. Running ruff against our entire codebase takes .4 seconds.

Bryan Van de Ven, co-creator of Bokeh, original author of Conda:

Ruff is ~150-200x faster than flake8 on my machine, scanning the whole repo takes ~0.2s instead of ~20s. This is an enormous quality of life improvement for local dev. It's fast enough that I added it as an actual commit hook, which is terrific.

Timothy Crosley, creator of isort:

Just switched my first project to Ruff. Only one downside so far: it's so fast I couldn't believe it was working till I intentionally introduced some errors.

Tim Abbott, lead developer of Zulip:

This is just ridiculously fast... ruff is amazing.

Table of Contents

For more, see the documentation.

  1. Getting Started
  2. Configuration
  3. Rules
  4. Contributing
  5. Support
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Who's Using Ruff?
  8. License

Getting Started

For more, see the documentation.

Installation

Ruff is available as ruff on PyPI.

Invoke Ruff directly with uvx:

uvx ruff check   # Lint all files in the current directory.
uvx ruff format  # Format all files in the current directory.

Or install Ruff with uv (recommended), pip, or pipx:

# With uv.
uv tool install ruff@latest  # Install Ruff globally.
uv add --dev ruff            # Or add Ruff to your project.

# With pip.
pip install ruff

# With pipx.
pipx install ruff

Starting with version 0.5.0, Ruff can be installed with our standalone installers:

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/ruff/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/ruff/install.ps1 | iex"

# For a specific version.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/ruff/0.9.10/install.sh | sh
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/ruff/0.9.10/install.ps1 | iex"

You can also install Ruff via Homebrew, Conda, and with a variety of other package managers.

Usage

To run Ruff as a linter, try any of the following:

ruff check                          # Lint all files in the current directory (and any subdirectories).
ruff check path/to/code/            # Lint all files in `/path/to/code` (and any subdirectories).
ruff check path/to/code/*.py        # Lint all `.py` files in `/path/to/code`.
ruff check path/to/code/to/file.py  # Lint `file.py`.
ruff check @arguments.txt           # Lint using an input file, treating its contents as newline-delimited command-line arguments.

Or, to run Ruff as a formatter:

ruff format                          # Format all files in the current directory (and any subdirectories).
ruff format path/to/code/            # Format all files in `/path/to/code` (and any subdirectories).
ruff format path/to/code/*.py        # Format all `.py` files in `/path/to/code`.
ruff format path/to/code/to/file.py  # Format `file.py`.
ruff format @arguments.txt           # Format using an input file, treating its contents as newline-delimited command-line arguments.

Ruff can also be used as a pre-commit hook via ruff-pre-commit:

- repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
  # Ruff version.
  rev: v0.9.10
  hooks:
    # Run the linter.
    - id: ruff
      args: [ --fix ]
    # Run the formatter.
    - id: ruff-format

Ruff can also be used as a VS Code extension or with various other editors.

Ruff can also be used as a GitHub Action via ruff-action:

name: Ruff
on: [ push, pull_request ]
jobs:
  ruff:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: astral-sh/ruff-action@v3

Configuration

Ruff can be configured through a pyproject.toml, ruff.toml, or .ruff.toml file (see: Configuration, or Settings for a complete list of all configuration options).

If left unspecified, Ruff's default configuration is equivalent to the following ruff.toml file:

# Exclude a variety of commonly ignored directories.
exclude = [
    ".bzr",
    ".direnv",
    ".eggs",
    ".git",
    ".git-rewrite",
    ".hg",
    ".ipynb_checkpoints",
    ".mypy_cache",
    ".nox",
    ".pants.d",
    ".pyenv",
    ".pytest_cache",
    ".pytype",
    ".ruff_cache",
    ".svn",
    ".tox",
    ".venv",
    ".vscode",
    "__pypackages__",
    "_build",
    "buck-out",
    "build",
    "dist",
    "node_modules",
    "site-packages",
    "venv",
]

# Same as Black.
line-length = 88
indent-width = 4

# Assume Python 3.9
target-version = "py39"

[lint]
# Enable Pyflakes (`F`) and a subset of the pycodestyle (`E`)  codes by default.
select = ["E4", "E7", "E9", "F"]
ignore = []

# Allow fix for all enabled rules (when `--fix`) is provided.
fixable = ["ALL"]
unfixable = []

# Allow unused variables when underscore-prefixed.
dummy-variable-rgx = "^(_+|(_+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*[a-zA-Z0-9]+?))$"

[format]
# Like Black, use double quotes for strings.
quote-style = "double"

# Like Black, indent with spaces, rather than tabs.
indent-style = "space"

# Like Black, respect magic trailing commas.
skip-magic-trailing-comma = false

# Like Black, automatically detect the appropriate line ending.
line-ending = "auto"

Note that, in a pyproject.toml, each section header should be prefixed with tool.ruff. For example, [lint] should be replaced with [tool.ruff.lint].

Some configuration options can be provided via dedicated command-line arguments, such as those related to rule enablement and disablement, file discovery, and logging level:

ruff check --select F401 --select F403 --quiet

The remaining configuration options can be provided through a catch-all --config argument:

ruff check --config "lint.per-file-ignores = {'some_file.py' = ['F841']}"

To opt in to the latest lint rules, formatter style changes, interface updates, and more, enable preview mode by setting preview = true in your configuration file or passing --preview on the command line. Preview mode enables a collection of unstable features that may change prior to stabilization.

See ruff help for more on Ruff's top-level commands, or ruff help check and ruff help format for more on the linting and formatting commands, respectively.

Rules

Ruff supports over 800 lint rules, many of which are inspired by popular tools like Flake8, isort, pyupgrade, and others. Regardless of the rule's origin, Ruff re-implements every rule in Rust as a first-party feature.

By default, Ruff enables Flake8's F rules, along with a subset of the E rules, omitting any stylistic rules that overlap with the use of a formatter, like ruff format or Black.

If you're just getting started with Ruff, the default rule set is a great place to start: it catches a wide variety of common errors (like unused imports) with zero configuration.

Beyond the defaults, Ruff re-implements some of the most popular Flake8 plugins and related code quality tools, including:

For a complete enumeration of the supported rules, see Rules.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and highly appreciated. To get started, check out the contributing guidelines.

You can also join us on Discord.

Support

Having trouble? Check out the existing issues on GitHub, or feel free to open a new one.

You can also ask for help on Discord.

Acknowledgements

Ruff's linter draws on both the APIs and implementation details of many other tools in the Python ecosystem, especially Flake8, Pyflakes, pycodestyle, pydocstyle, pyupgrade, and isort.

In some cases, Ruff includes a "direct" Rust port of the corresponding tool. We're grateful to the maintainers of these tools for their work, and for all the value they've provided to the Python community.

Ruff's formatter is built on a fork of Rome's rome_formatter, and again draws on both API and implementation details from Rome, Prettier, and Black.

Ruff's import resolver is based on the import resolution algorithm from Pyright.

Ruff is also influenced by a number of tools outside the Python ecosystem, like Clippy and ESLint.

Ruff is the beneficiary of a large number of contributors.

Ruff is released under the MIT license.

Who's Using Ruff?

Ruff is used by a number of major open-source projects and companies, including:

Show Your Support

If you're using Ruff, consider adding the Ruff badge to your project's README.md:

[![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff)

...or README.rst:

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json
    :target: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
    :alt: Ruff

...or, as HTML:

<a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff"><img src="https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json" alt="Ruff" style="max-width:100%;"></a>

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