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Synonyms for @property properties not handled correctly #15054

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@MartinBonner

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@MartinBonner

Bug Report

Given a member function decorated with @property, a synonym created by assignment is not recognized as a property. Instead it is considered a function.

To Reproduce
Consider the following python script:

class Class:
    @property
    def my_function(self) -> int:
        return 42

    my_f = my_function

c = Class()
i: int = c.my_f
print(i)

Running it prints 42 (and not <bound method Class.my_function of <__main__.Class object at 0x7f60f14d8460>>).

Expected Behavior
mypy should report Success: no issues found in 1 source file

Actual Behavior
mypy reports:

mjb.py:9: error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "Callable[[], int]", variable has type "int")  [assignment]
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Workround

If the penultimate line is changed to i: int = c.my_function mypy accepts it with no errors.

Your Environment

  • Mypy version used: 1.2.0
  • Mypy command-line flags: None
  • Mypy configuration options from mypy.ini (and other config files): None
  • Python version used: 3.10.5

Motivating use case

One obvious answer to this is "don't create such damn-fool aliases in the first place". However we ran into the underlying problem because the git module does exactly this, and we happened to use Repo.refs rather than Repo.references. As noted in the workround, changing to Repo.references worked.

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