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## Summary
Add more precise type inference for a limited set of `isinstance(…)`
calls, i.e. return `Literal[True]` if we can be sure that this is the
correct result. This improves exhaustiveness checking / reachability
analysis for if-elif-else chains with `isinstance` checks. For example:
```py
def is_number(x: int | str) -> bool: # no "can implicitly return `None` error here anymore
if isinstance(x, int):
return True
elif isinstance(x, str):
return False
# code here is now detected as being unreachable
```
This PR also adds a new test suite for exhaustiveness checking.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
### Ecosystem analysis
The removed diagnostics look good. There's [one
case](f52c4f1afd/torchvision/io/video_reader.py (L125-L143))
where a "true positive" is removed in unreachable code. `src` is
annotated as being of type `str`, but there is an `elif isinstance(src,
bytes)` branch, which we now detect as unreachable. And so the
diagnostic inside that branch is silenced. I don't think this is a
problem, especially once we have a "graying out" feature, or a lint that
warns about unreachable code.