TypeVar with Type-based constraints misbehaving when used to annotate *args

[BryceBeagle]

Bug Report

It seems that the below combination of *args, and TypeVar with constraints related to Type, is misbehaving. I reached out on the Gitter and was instructed that this is probably a bug.

I tried replacing the Types with ints (observable in the linked mypy-playground) and that seems to work fine.

To Reproduce

from typing import TypeVar, List, Type


TypeArgT = TypeVar("TypeArgT", Type, List[Type])

def type_a(*args: TypeArgT):
    ...
    
    
def type_b(*args: List[Type]):
    ...
    
type_a(int, str, float)             # test t1
type_a([str, float], [int])         # test t2   <-- this does not work

type_b([bool, bool], [str, bool])   # test t3

https://mypy-play.net/?mypy=0.780&python=3.8&gist=847224369f6bad4d74a1ccfd672fb250

Actual Behavior

Test t2 in the above snippet throws the following mypy error:

main.py:14: error: Value of type variable "TypeArgT" of "type_a" cannot be "object"
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Your Environment

• Mypy version used: 0.790
• Python version used: 3.8