Runtime-checkable protocols are broken on py312 (the sequel)

[AlexWaygood]

Bug report

On 3.8-3.11, all subclasses of typing.Generic were guaranteed to have an _is_protocol class attribute, which is used as an internal marker:

cpython/Lib/typing.py

Line 1790 in 76873ca

_is_protocol = False

Two places in typing.py rely on all subclasses of Generic having this marker:

cpython/Lib/typing.py

Lines 1895 to 1897 in dbc8216

	if (isinstance(annotations, collections.abc.Mapping) and
	attr in annotations and
	issubclass(other, Generic) and other._is_protocol):

cpython/Lib/typing.py

Lines 2062 to 2064 in dbc8216

	if not issubclass(cls, Generic) or not cls._is_protocol:
	raise TypeError('@runtime_checkable can be only applied to protocol classes,'
	' got %r' % cls)

However, on Python 3.12 (due to the implementation of PEP-695), subclasses of Generic no longer have this marker:

>>> class Foo[T]: ...
...
>>> Foo._is_protocol
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: type object 'Foo' has no attribute '_is_protocol'

This leads to AttributeError being raised in two situations where it shouldn't be:

Python 3.13.0a0 (heads/main:1080c4386d, May 25 2023, 13:11:38) [MSC v.1932 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> from typing import Protocol, runtime_checkable
>>> @runtime_checkable
... class Foo[T]: ...
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\typing.py", line 2062, in runtime_checkable
 if not issubclass(cls, Generic) or not cls._is_protocol:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: type object 'Foo' has no attribute '_is_protocol'
>>> @runtime_checkable
... class HasX(Protocol):
... x: int
...
>>> class Bar[T]:
... x: T
... def __init__(self, x):
... self.x = x
...
>>> isinstance(Bar(42), HasX)
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\typing.py", line 1810, in __instancecheck__
 if super().__instancecheck__(instance):
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\abc.py", line 119, in __instancecheck__
 return _abc_instancecheck(cls, instance)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\typing.py", line 1794, in __subclasscheck__
 return super().__subclasscheck__(other)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\abc.py", line 123, in __subclasscheck__
 return _abc_subclasscheck(cls, subclass)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 File "C:\Users\alexw\coding\cpython\Lib\typing.py", line 1897, in _proto_hook
 issubclass(other, Generic) and other._is_protocol):
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: type object 'Bar' has no attribute '_is_protocol'

Cc. @JelleZijlstra for PEP-695

Linked PRs

• gh-104935: typing: Fix interactions between @runtime_checkable and Generic #104939
• [3.12] gh-104935: typing: Fix interactions between @runtime_checkable and Generic (GH-104939) #104941