Bug Report

--strict-equality-for-none gives a false-positive comparison-overlap error when checking if a global is None in a loop.

To Reproduce

# No playground link since playground doesn't support --strict-equality-for-none yet (https://github.com/ymyzk/mypy-playground/issues/1058).

# flags: --strict-equality --strict-equality-for-none --local-partial-types --allow-redefinition-new
x: int | None = None


def f() -> None:
    for _ in range(1):
        reveal_type(x)  # note: Revealed type is "builtins.int | None"
        if x is None:  # error: Non-overlapping identity check (left operand type: "int", right operand type: "None")  [comparison-overlap]
            raise RuntimeError()

Expected Behavior

No error.

Actual Behavior

$ mypy --strict-equality --strict-equality-for-none --local-partial-types --allow-redefinition-new eg.py
eg.py:9: note: Revealed type is "builtins.int | None"
eg.py:10: error: Non-overlapping identity check (left operand type: "int", right operand type: "None")  [comparison-overlap]
Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

Your Environment

• Mypy version used: 1.18.2, compiled
• Mypy command-line flags: --strict-equality --strict-equality-for-none --local-partial-types --allow-redefinition-new
• Mypy configuration options from mypy.ini (and other config files): none
• Python version used: CPython 3.13.9

Notes

This seems similar to #19328. Note that the error goes away if you remove the line for _ in range(1):.

But it's different from #19328 in some ways:

• It seems to be specific to --strict-equality-for-none; the error goes away if you change None to str:

  # flags: --strict-equality --strict-equality-for-none --local-partial-types --allow-redefinition-new
  x: int | str = ""
  
  
  def f() -> None:
      for _ in range(1):
          reveal_type(x)  # note: Revealed type is "builtins.int | builtins.str"
          if x == "":  # NO ERROR
              raise RuntimeError()

• It seems to require multiple variable scopes: the error goes away if you remove the line def f() -> None:.

• Unlike the snippet in --strict-equality too strict in iteratively visited code #19328, the variable is never mutated.