list('abc') not inferred to be of type List[str]

[AbhijeetKrishnan]

Reference: pandas-dev/pandas#29114 (comment)

list('abc') should be inferred to be of type List[str]. However, we still get errors if used as the argument to a function.

MRE -

import collections
named_tuple = collections.namedtuple('Test', list('abc'))

Running mypy on the above gives the error error: List or tuple literal expected as the second argument to namedtuple()

[srittau]

This looks like a mypy error. Both class list and namedtuple() look to be correctly typed in typeshed and should work together. I assume that namedtuple is specially handled by mypy, because of its special semantics.

[AbhijeetKrishnan]

Would it be more helpful to raise this issue with mypy instead?

[AbhijeetKrishnan]

I've raised the same issue with mypy (python/mypy#7766) This issue can be closed.