D7296: pycompat: kludge around pytype being confused by __new__

[durin42 (Augie Fackler)]

durin42 updated this revision to Diff 18170.

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  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7296

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/pycompat.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/pycompat.py b/mercurial/pycompat.py
--- a/mercurial/pycompat.py
+++ b/mercurial/pycompat.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
     bytechr = struct.Struct('>B').pack
     byterepr = b'%r'.__mod__
 
-    class bytestr(bytes):
+    class _bytestr(bytes):
         """A bytes which mostly acts as a Python 2 str
 
         >>> bytestr(), bytestr(bytearray(b'foo')), bytestr(u'ascii'), bytestr(1)
@@ -291,6 +291,8 @@
 
         return w
 
+    bytestr = _bytestr  # type: Callable[[Union[bytes, str], bytestr]
+
     # these wrappers are automagically imported by hgloader
     delattr = _wrapattrfunc(builtins.delattr)
     getattr = _wrapattrfunc(builtins.getattr)
@@ -398,7 +400,7 @@
     unicode = unicode
     bytechr = chr
     byterepr = repr
-    bytestr = str
+    bytestr = str  # type: Callable[[Union[bytes, str], bytestr]
     iterbytestr = iter
     maybebytestr = identity
     sysbytes = identity



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