Should operator `|` on `TypedDict` allow for creating intersection-like dicts?

首先比较 PEP 584 和 PEP 589，然后在链接的 mypy playground 中复现 TypedDict 示例。查看相关的 typing、Pylance 和 Pyright 讨论，以确定对于所提议的类似交集的行为是否存在共识。达成一致的语义，并记录 type checker 支持该行为的路径后，即可视为完成。

I'm wondering how is the relation between the following PEPs:

• PEP 584 which introduces operator | for dicts, but doesn't mention how it should behave for TypedDict.
• PEP 589 which introduces TypedDict, but doesn't mention the operator |.

According to PEP 589, multiple inheritance can be used to create a combined (or "intersection like") dict, and operator | provides the corresponding behavior at runtime. Thus it would be nice if the type system could handle the combination properly (similar to how it is possible in TypeScript):

from typing import TypedDict

class HasFoo(TypedDict):
    foo: int
    
class HasBar(TypedDict):
    bar: int
    
class HasFooAndBar(HasFoo, HasBar):
    ...
    
def f(a: HasFoo, b: HasBar) -> HasFooAndBar:
    return a | b

From a runtime and type-checking perspective this code looks valid, but currently mypy does not accept it (playground):

main.py:15: error: Incompatible return value type (got "HasFoo", expected "HasFooAndBar")  [return-value]
main.py:15: error: Unsupported operand types for | ("HasFoo" and "HasBar")  [operator]

Pyright seems to have the same behavior.

Apparently operator | can only be used for two instances of the same typed dict, which as far as I can see has limited use cases, because using the operator | on two dicts that already have the same fields is kind of pointless (perhaps it mostly makes sense if the type used total=False).

Possible related discussions and issues I've found:

• https://github.com/python/typing/issues/213 (since this feature for TypedDict probably falls into the "intersection type" category as well?)
• https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/2300
• https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/issues/2951