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sdeframond • today at 3:30 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Funny, I ran into the same pattern just a few months ago!

In practice, I found it difficult for coworkers to read and understand so I dropped the idea.

Another limitation I found is that it breaks down when you start using inheritance. For example:

```

class _A: pass

A = NewType("A", _A)

class _B(_A): pass

B = NewType("B", _B)

def foo(a: A) -> None: pass

b = B(_B())

foo(b) # Mypy is not happy: Argument 1 to "foo" has incompatible type "B"; expected "A"

foo(A(b)) # Mypy is OK

```

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whilenot-dev • today at 5:28 PM

Just use a generic and make it bound to (A, B):

    from typing import *
    
    
    class _A:
        pass
    
    class _B(_A):
        pass
    
    A = NewType("A", _A)
    B = NewType("B", _B)
    
    def foo[T: (A, B)](val: T) -> T:
        return val
    
    a = A(_A())
    b = B(_B())
    
    _a = foo(a)
    _b = foo(b)
    
    reveal_type(_a)
    reveal_type(_b)
Playground here: https://mypy-play.net/?mypy=latest&python=3.12&gist=36573363...
simonw • today at 4:53 PM

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