Dealing with conflicting names

Suppose you have a class with a method whose name is the same as animported (or built-in) type, and you want to use the type in anothermethod signature. E.g.:

class Message:
    def bytes(self):
        ...
    def register(self, path: bytes):  # error: Invalid type "mod.Message.bytes"
        ...

The third line elicits an error because mypy sees the argument typebytes as a reference to the method by that name. Other thanrenaming the method, a work-around is to use an alias:

bytes_ = bytes
class Message:
    def bytes(self):
        ...
    def register(self, path: bytes_):
        ...