Use `type(var) is T` to Narrow Types

[George-Ogden]

Feature

An example where this currently fails is:

t: type[str | int]
assert t is int # t == int also fails
reveal_type(t) # gives type[str] | type[int]

I would like the assertion on line 2 to narrow the type of t to type[int].
More generally, using is on a type should narrow that type.

Here is another use case:

def __eq__(self, obj: object) -> bool:
 return type(self) is type(obj) and self.value == obj.value

Currently, there is an issue that "object has no attribute value".
This can be avoided with

def __eq__(self, obj: object) -> bool:
 return type(self) is type(obj) and self.value == cast(Self, obj).value
 # or
 return isinstance(obj, type(self)) and isinstance(self, type(obj))and self.value == obj.value

But it would be great if the cast were avoided in this idiomatic check.

I don't know enough about Mypy's implementation to know how this would fit in, but I expect that isinstance and issubclass checks could be extended.

[jorenham]

Similarly, it would also be cool if var.__class__ is T would narrow var to T