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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-08-28 18:09:45 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-08-28 18:09:45 (GMT)
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bpo-44524: Fix cryptic TypeError message when trying to subclass special forms in `typing` (GH-27710)
This was a Python 3.9 regression. (cherry picked from commit a3a4d20d6798aa2975428d51f3a4f890248810cb) Co-authored-by: Yurii Karabas <1998uriyyo@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_typing.py16
-rw-r--r--Lib/typing.py3
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-08-10-16-57-10.bpo-44524.dk9QX4.rst2
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_typing.py b/Lib/test/test_typing.py
index 7b2fd69..459af25 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_typing.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_typing.py
@@ -2418,6 +2418,22 @@ class GenericTests(BaseTestCase):
self.assertEqual(c.from_b, 'b')
self.assertEqual(c.from_c, 'c')
+ def test_subclass_special_form(self):
+ for obj in (
+ ClassVar[int],
+ Final[int],
+ Union[int, float],
+ Optional[int],
+ Literal[1, 2],
+ Concatenate[int, ParamSpec("P")],
+ TypeGuard[int],
+ ):
+ with self.subTest(msg=obj):
+ with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+ TypeError, f'^{re.escape(f"Cannot subclass {obj!r}")}$'
+ ):
+ class Foo(obj):
+ pass
class ClassVarTests(BaseTestCase):
diff --git a/Lib/typing.py b/Lib/typing.py
index 423329a..4c2d9fc 100644
--- a/Lib/typing.py
+++ b/Lib/typing.py
@@ -1081,6 +1081,9 @@ class _GenericAlias(_BaseGenericAlias, _root=True):
return operator.getitem, (origin, args)
def __mro_entries__(self, bases):
+ if isinstance(self.__origin__, _SpecialForm):
+ raise TypeError(f"Cannot subclass {self!r}")
+
if self._name: # generic version of an ABC or built-in class
return super().__mro_entries__(bases)
if self.__origin__ is Generic:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-08-10-16-57-10.bpo-44524.dk9QX4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-08-10-16-57-10.bpo-44524.dk9QX4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc3659f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-08-10-16-57-10.bpo-44524.dk9QX4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Make exception message more useful when subclass from typing special form
+alias. Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.