Remove most typing.cast() calls (#4995)

pylint/checkers/classes.py

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 """
 import collections
 from itertools import chain, zip_longest
-from typing import List, Pattern, cast
+from typing import List, Pattern
 
 import astroid
 from astroid import nodes
@@ -907,7 +907,6 @@ def leave_classdef(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
 
     def _check_unused_private_functions(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
         for function_def in node.nodes_of_class(nodes.FunctionDef):
-            function_def = cast(nodes.FunctionDef, function_def)
             if not is_attr_private(function_def.name):
                 continue
             parent_scope = function_def.parent.scope()
@@ -918,7 +917,6 @@ def _check_unused_private_functions(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
                 ):
                     continue
             for attribute in node.nodes_of_class(nodes.Attribute):
-                attribute = cast(nodes.Attribute, attribute)
                 if (
                     attribute.attrname != function_def.name
                     or attribute.scope() == function_def  # We ignore recursive calls
@@ -978,7 +976,6 @@ def _check_unused_private_variables(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
 
     def _check_unused_private_attributes(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
         for assign_attr in node.nodes_of_class(nodes.AssignAttr):
-            assign_attr = cast(nodes.AssignAttr, assign_attr)
             if not is_attr_private(assign_attr.attrname) or not isinstance(
                 assign_attr.expr, nodes.Name
             ):
@@ -999,7 +996,6 @@ def _check_unused_private_attributes(self, node: nodes.ClassDef) -> None:
                 )
 
             for attribute in node.nodes_of_class(nodes.Attribute):
-                attribute = cast(nodes.Attribute, attribute)
                 if attribute.attrname != assign_attr.attrname:
                     continue
 

pylint/checkers/refactoring/recommendation_checker.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Licensed under the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 # For details: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/main/LICENSE
-from typing import Union, cast
+from typing import Union
 
 import astroid
 from astroid import nodes
@@ -128,17 +128,14 @@ def _check_use_maxsplit_arg(self, node: nodes.Call) -> None:
                 # Check if loop present within the scope of the node
                 scope = node.scope()
                 for loop_node in scope.nodes_of_class((nodes.For, nodes.While)):
-                    loop_node = cast(nodes.NodeNG, loop_node)
                     if not loop_node.parent_of(node):
                         continue
 
                     # Check if var is mutated within loop (Assign/AugAssign)
                     for assignment_node in loop_node.nodes_of_class(nodes.AugAssign):
-                        assignment_node = cast(nodes.AugAssign, assignment_node)
                         if node.parent.slice.name == assignment_node.target.name:
                             return
                     for assignment_node in loop_node.nodes_of_class(nodes.Assign):
-                        assignment_node = cast(nodes.Assign, assignment_node)
                         if node.parent.slice.name in [
                             n.name for n in assignment_node.targets
                         ]:
@@ -216,7 +213,6 @@ def _check_consider_using_enumerate(self, node: nodes.For) -> None:
         # for body.
         for child in node.body:
             for subscript in child.nodes_of_class(nodes.Subscript):
-                subscript = cast(nodes.Subscript, subscript)
                 if not isinstance(subscript.value, expected_subscript_val_type):
                     continue
 
@@ -254,8 +250,6 @@ def _check_consider_using_dict_items(self, node: nodes.For) -> None:
         # for body.
         for child in node.body:
             for subscript in child.nodes_of_class(nodes.Subscript):
-                subscript = cast(nodes.Subscript, subscript)
-
                 if not isinstance(subscript.value, (nodes.Name, nodes.Attribute)):
                     continue
 
@@ -304,8 +298,6 @@ def _check_consider_using_dict_items_comprehension(
 
         for child in node.parent.get_children():
             for subscript in child.nodes_of_class(nodes.Subscript):
-                subscript = cast(nodes.Subscript, subscript)
-
                 if not isinstance(subscript.value, (nodes.Name, nodes.Attribute)):
                     continue
 

pylint/checkers/refactoring/refactoring_checker.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import itertools
 import tokenize
 from functools import reduce
-from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Tuple, Union, cast
+from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, NamedTuple, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import astroid
 from astroid import nodes
@@ -1862,8 +1862,6 @@ def _check_unnecessary_dict_index_lookup(
             )
             for child in children:
                 for subscript in child.nodes_of_class(nodes.Subscript):
-                    subscript = cast(nodes.Subscript, subscript)
-
                     if not isinstance(subscript.value, (nodes.Name, nodes.Attribute)):
                         continue