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ddfisher opened this issue Sep 29, 2016 · 1 comment
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Disentangle is_subtype from is_compatible_with #2196

ddfisher opened this issue Sep 29, 2016 · 1 comment

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Currently mypy confuses subtyping and compatibility, which has been the source of many strange bugs around Any. The is_subtype function really means is_compatible_with. Disentangling these two should fix a number of future bugs.
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Duplicate of #2038.

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