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Use `_promote` instead of `mro` hacking

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read the referenced mypy/nodes.py lines first to understand the _promote approach. Then locate the corresponding MRO handling in this repository and determine the affected tests. Done means the existing MRO hack is replaced with the cleaner approach without changing the typeclass behavior.

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https://github.com/python/mypy/blob/a9f3b5e5b21304c63f93e96e0bfeab2fa2945a00/mypy/nodes.py#L2353-L2357

It looks like a cleaner solution.

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