TypeVar not assignable to itself in steam.py

[Gobot1234]

Describe the bug
I think I've managed to get myself down to the last few type bugs in my library and the last one that's confusing me is a TypeVar that's not assignable to itself when joining types to the return types.

but it is joinable when I use cast even though it should be for the same TypeVar. Unfortunately I can't figure out a minimal repro for it (sorry to keep sending these things I can't find minimal repros for).

Code

1. git clone https://github.com/Gobot1234/steam.py
2. poetry install
3. open steam/chat.py scroll to a function involving MemberT

VS Code extension or command-line
pyright 1.1.328

[erictraut]

This is because you have a snarl of circular dependencies in your code.

• The type MemberT has a bound of Member.
• Member is parameterized by GroupT.
• GroupT has a bound of Group | None.
• Group uses GroupChannel as a type argument.
• GroupChannel derives from Chat.
• Chat derives from Channel which is parameterized with ChatMessageT.
• ChatMessageT has a bound of GroupMessage | ClanMessage.
• GroupMessage derives from ChatMessage.
• ChatMessage is parameterized by MemberT.
  And we're in a cycle.

Pyright already handles many forms of circular dependencies, but it doesn't handle this one. I'll look for ways to extend the logic to handle this.

I noticed that you're importing a bunch of symbols under a TYPE_CHECKING conditional check. I'm guessing you did this to try to avoid runtime import circularities. That's just masking the fact that your code is not well layered. I recommend looking for ways to refactor your code so you can eliminate these TYPE_CHECKING conditions and eliminate circular dependencies. Consider enabling the reportImportCycles check and eliminating the errors it reports.

[Gobot1234]

I'll see if I can get rid of them going forwards but I feel like there's not much I can do bar put everything in one massive file

[erictraut]

I'm going to close this as "won't fix". Try to eliminate the circular dependencies within your code.