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GeezerVison is showing github.com — [functools] Preserve return type in partialmethod (#16499) by hrithiksaini99 · Pull Request #16736 · python/typeshed

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@hrithiksaini99 hrithiksaini99 commented Nov 7, 2026

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Fixes #16499.

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In #16499, wrapping a callable in partialmethod resulted in partialmethod[Any] in mypy (e.g. partialmethod(pprint, options={}) where pprint -> str).

This was caused by the secondary func: _Descriptor overload where _Descriptor: TypeAlias = Any. Because _Descriptor had no _T type parameter, mypy unified every callable argument against both overloads, joining _T with Any and losing return type information.

Align partialmethod with partial (which does not have an unconstrained descriptor overload):

  • Remove the unconstrained func: _Descriptor overload on __init__ / __new__
  • Fix the first parameter name of __new__ from self to cls
  • Add regression test in stdlib/@tests/test_cases/check_functools.py asserting partialmethod and instance calls preserve _T.

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[functools] Preserve return type in partialmethod (python#16499)
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Remove unused functools.partialmethod.__new__ from stubtest allowlists
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According to mypy_primer, this change has no effect on the checked open source code. 🤖🎉

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@sumit-2007-git sumit-2007-git mentioned this pull request Nov 11, 2026
[functools] Make partial covariant in its return type #16769
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