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Enable three new mypy strictness flags and run pyright as an additional type checker, fixing all reported errors across the codebase.

What do these changes do

  • Adds extra_checks, strict_bytes, strict_equality_for_none, and strict_optional to [tool.mypy] in pyproject.toml.
  • Adds pyrightconfig.json (basic mode) that suppresses false positives from uninstalled optional dependencies (torch, numpy, transformers, etc.) while keeping real checks enabled.
  • Fixes ~20 type errors surfaced by pyright across 13 source files.

What was wrong

mypy was missing three strictness flags. pyright had no config and had never been run — it surfaced:

  • list[LiteralString] assigned to list[str] (invariant list) in tcc.py, tcc_p.py, pronounce.py
  • Possibly-unbound variables: attn_energies in thai2rom/thaig2p (no else branch on if/elif chains), th_m/days_in_month in thai_lunar_date
  • Global lazy-load pattern (Optional[X] globals) not narrowed after assignment — unigram.py tagger functions
  • Duplicate/conflicting type re-annotations in _tag_perceptron.py load() (re-declared classes as list[str] then called .add() on it), tokenization_small100.py, translate/
  • Broad NER.tag() return union not narrowed before tuple unpack in nercut.py
  • Trie | None passed where Trie | list[str] | str expected in tokenize/core.py

How this fixes it

  • pyproject.toml: three new mypy flags added in alphabetical order among existing flags.
  • pyrightconfig.json: suppresses reportMissingImports, reportAttributeAccessIssue, reportCallIssue, reportGeneralTypeIssues, reportInvalidTypeForm, reportOperatorIssue, reportOptionalMemberAccess — all noise from optional deps absent in CI; mypy already covers these via ignore_missing_imports overrides.
  • _tag_perceptron.py: removed redundant class-body declarations; fixed load() to assign set(w_td_c["classes"]) (not retype as list[str]); replaced prev, prev2 = self.START with indexed access.
  • unigram.py: cast(dict[str, str], _ORCHID_TAGGER) at return site — standard pattern for lazy-init globals pyright can't narrow.
  • thai2rom.py / thaig2p.py: added else: raise ValueError("Unsupported attention method: …") to make attn_energies always bound.
  • thai_lunar_date.py: th_m = 0 before loop; else: raise ValueError for unknown last_day.
  • tokenization_small100.py: removed instance-level re-annotations for already-declared attributes; # pyright: ignore[reportRedeclaration] on property getter/setter pair (false positive from unresolvable transformers base class).
  • budoux.py: explicit None guard after lazy init so pyright narrows Optional[Any] → non-None before .parse().

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Original prompt

Make mypy more strict.
Add these mypy configuration to pyproject.toml:

extra_checks = true
strict_bytes = true
strict_equality_for_none = true

then run mypy and fix any errors.

Update code, comments, docstring, and documentation.

Run pyright in addition to mypy and ruff, fix any errors.


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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Update mypy configuration for stricter checks and run validations Make mypy stricter and fix resulting type errors; add pyright Mar 22, 2026
Copilot AI requested a review from bact March 22, 2026 21:04
Copilot finished work on behalf of bact March 22, 2026 21:04
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bact deleted the copilot/update-mypy-config-and-fix-errors branch March 24, 2026 00:50
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