Add: refinement of ReadOnly TypedDict fields in subclasses #18704
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Fixes #7435
Adds the possibility to refine read-only keys in TypedDicts through inheritance.
The refinement is limited to read-only keys because refining mutable keys leads to unsafe edge cases (see #7435 (comment))
The rules are straight-forward:
@hauntsaninja, I saw you were open to receiving a PR for this. This is the first time I look at mypy's source code, so I apologize if the code is not up to standard! (I was particularly unsure if it is OK to modify failure messages.)