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Get generic of typevar

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Begin by reviewing how generic classes, type variables, and attribute types are currently specified in the typing project, then determine the intended semantics for accessing the type variable through the generic bound; done means the proposed syntax has documented, testable behavior.

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Description

topic: feature

support something like this

class A[T]:
    def __init__(self, t: T):
        self.t = t


class B:
    def x[TA: A](self, a: TA) -> TA.T:
        return a.t
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Python
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