[red-knot] Attribute access and the descriptor protocol (#16416)
## Summary
* Attributes/method are now properly looked up on metaclasses, when
called on class objects
* We properly distinguish between data descriptors and non-data
descriptors (but we do not yet support them in store-context, i.e.
`obj.data_descr = …`)
* The descriptor protocol is now implemented in a single unified place
for instances, classes and dunder-calls. Unions and possibly-unbound
symbols are supported in all possible stages of the process by creating
union types as results.
* In general, the handling of "possibly-unbound" symbols has been
improved in a lot of places: meta-class attributes, attributes,
descriptors with possibly-unbound `__get__` methods, instance
attributes, …
* We keep track of type qualifiers in a lot more places. I anticipate
that this will be useful if we import e.g. `Final` symbols from other
modules (see relevant change to typing spec:
https://github.com/python/typing/pull/1937).
* Detection and special-casing of the `typing.Protocol` special form in
order to avoid lots of changes in the test suite due to new `@Todo`
types when looking up attributes on builtin types which have `Protocol`
in their MRO. We previously
looked up attributes in a wrong way, which is why this didn't come up
before.
closes #16367
closes #15966
## Context
The way attribute lookup in `Type::member` worked before was simply
wrong (mostly my own fault). The whole instance-attribute lookup should
probably never have been integrated into `Type::member`. And the
`Type::static_member` function that I introduced in my last descriptor
PR was the wrong abstraction. It's kind of fascinating how far this
approach took us, but I am pretty confident that the new approach
proposed here is what we need to model this correctly.
There are three key pieces that are required to implement attribute
lookups:
- **`Type::class_member`**/**`Type::find_in_mro`**: The
`Type::find_in_mro` method that can look up attributes on class bodies
(and corresponding bases). This is a partial function on types, as it
can not be called on instance types like`Type::Instance(…)` or
`Type::IntLiteral(…)`. For this reason, we usually call it through
`Type::class_member`, which is essentially just
`type.to_meta_type().find_in_mro(…)` plus union/intersection handling.
- **`Type::instance_member`**: This new function is basically the
type-level equivalent to `obj.__dict__[name]` when called on
`Type::Instance(…)`. We use this to discover instance attributes such as
those that we see as declarations on class bodies or as (annotated)
assignments to `self.attr` in methods of a class.
- The implementation of the descriptor protocol. It works slightly
different for instances and for class objects, but it can be described
by the general framework:
- Call `type.class_member("attribute")` to look up "attribute" in the
MRO of the meta type of `type`. Call the resulting `Symbol` `meta_attr`
(even if it's unbound).
- Use `meta_attr.class_member("__get__")` to look up `__get__` on the
*meta type* of `meta_attr`. Call it with `__get__(meta_attr, self,
self.to_meta_type())`. If this fails (either the lookup or the call),
just proceed with `meta_attr`. Otherwise, replace `meta_attr` in the
following with the return type of `__get__`. In this step, we also probe
if a `__set__` or `__delete__` method exists and store it in
`meta_attr_kind` (can be either "data descriptor" or "normal attribute
or non-data descriptor").
- Compute a `fallback` type.
- For instances, we use `self.instance_member("attribute")`
- For class objects, we use `class_attr =
self.find_in_mro("attribute")`, and then try to invoke the descriptor
protocol on `class_attr`, i.e. we look up `__get__` on the meta type of
`class_attr` and call it with `__get__(class_attr, None, self)`. This
additional invocation of the descriptor protocol on the fallback type is
one major asymmetry in the otherwise universal descriptor protocol
implementation.
- Finally, we look at `meta_attr`, `meta_attr_kind` and `fallback`, and
handle various cases of (possible) unboundness of these symbols.
- If `meta_attr` is bound and a data descriptor, just return `meta_attr`
- If `meta_attr` is not a data descriptor, and `fallback` is bound, just
return `fallback`
- If `meta_attr` is not a data descriptor, and `fallback` is unbound,
return `meta_attr`
- Return unions of these three possibilities for partially-bound
symbols.
This allows us to handle class objects and instances within the same
framework. There is a minor additional detail where for instances, we do
not allow the fallback type (the instance attribute) to completely
shadow the non-data descriptor. We do this because we (currently) don't
want to pretend that we can statically infer that an instance attribute
is always set.
Dunder method calls can also be embedded into this framework. The only
thing that changes is that *there is no fallback type*. If a dunder
method is called on an instance, we do not fall back to instance
variables. If a dunder method is called on a class object, we only look
it up on the meta class, never on the class itself.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests.
