Improve typehints of xr.Dataset.__getitem__

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: flake8
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/mirrors-mypy
-    rev: v0.761  # Must match ci/requirements/*.yml
+    rev: v0.780  # Must match ci/requirements/*.yml
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
   # run this occasionally, ref discussion https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/3194

ci/requirements/py38.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ dependencies:
   - isort
   - lxml    # Optional dep of pydap
   - matplotlib
-  - mypy=0.761  # Must match .pre-commit-config.yaml
+  - mypy=0.780  # Must match .pre-commit-config.yaml
   - nc-time-axis
   - netcdf4
   - numba

xarray/core/dataset.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     TypeVar,
     Union,
     cast,
+    overload,
 )
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -1241,13 +1242,25 @@ def loc(self) -> _LocIndexer:
         """
         return _LocIndexer(self)
 
-    def __getitem__(self, key: Any) -> "Union[DataArray, Dataset]":
+    # FIXME https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/7328
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, key: Mapping) -> "Dataset":  # type: ignore
+        ...
+
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, key: Hashable) -> "DataArray":  # type: ignore
+        ...
+
+    @overload
+    def __getitem__(self, key: Any) -> "Dataset":
+        ...
+
+    def __getitem__(self, key):
         """Access variables or coordinates this dataset as a
         :py:class:`~xarray.DataArray`.
 
         Indexing with a list of names will return a new ``Dataset`` object.
         """
-        # TODO(shoyer): type this properly: https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/7328
         if utils.is_dict_like(key):
             return self.isel(**cast(Mapping, key))
 

xarray/core/weighted.py

@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ class Weighted:
     def __init__(self, obj: "DataArray", weights: "DataArray") -> None:
         ...
 
-    @overload  # noqa: F811
-    def __init__(self, obj: "Dataset", weights: "DataArray") -> None:  # noqa: F811
+    @overload
+    def __init__(self, obj: "Dataset", weights: "DataArray") -> None:
         ...
 
-    def __init__(self, obj, weights):  # noqa: F811
+    def __init__(self, obj, weights):
         """
         Create a Weighted object