Wrong file blamed for a mixture of NamedTuple and passing a function instead of type. #8511

• Are you reporting a bug, or opening a feature request?
  bug

• Please insert below the code you are checking with mypy,

  • Create an empty dir/init.py.
  • Create dir/file1.py with:

import typing

def foo():
  pass


Type1 = typing.NamedTuple('Type1', [
    ('foo', foo),
])

• Create file2.py (in the root dir) with:

from typing import NamedTuple

from dir.file1 import Type1

Type2 = NamedTuple('Type2', [
    ('x', Type1),
])

• Run: mypy file2.py --follow-imports=silent

• What is the actual behavior/output?

The error message is:
file2.py:8: error: Name 'foo' is not defined

-> Note that file2.py has no line 8 (it the problematic line in file1.py) and no mention of foo.

• What is the behavior/output you expect?
  • the error message should point to file1.py or say something about Type1 in file2.py being invalid.
  • foo is well defined in this case, making the error message more cryptic.

When reducing this case I've found that removing --follow-import-silent gives an error message about file1.py which is actionable, but the other message is still present and is wrong, since the line number refers to a line in file1.py.

• What are the versions of mypy and Python you are using?

mypy 0.761 on Python 3.5.2

• What are the mypy flags you are using? (For example --strict-optional)

--follow-imports=silent