We already take care to perform some type narrowing for arg_type and
ret_type, but not in a way where mypy can utilize the result once we add
type hints, e.g.:

qapi/schema.py:833: error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression
has type "QAPISchemaType", variable has type
"Optional[QAPISchemaObjectType]") [assignment]

qapi/schema.py:893: error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression
has type "QAPISchemaType", variable has type
"Optional[QAPISchemaObjectType]") [assignment]

A simple change to use a temporary variable helps the medicine go down.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/qapi/schema.py | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/schema.py b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
index 8e25dd35562..775766c0135 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/schema.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/schema.py
@@ -851,13 +851,14 @@ def __init__(self, name, info, doc, ifcond, features,
     def check(self, schema):
         super().check(schema)
         if self._arg_type_name:
-            self.arg_type = schema.resolve_type(
+            arg_type = schema.resolve_type(
                 self._arg_type_name, self.info, "command's 'data'")
-            if not isinstance(self.arg_type, QAPISchemaObjectType):
+            if not isinstance(arg_type, QAPISchemaObjectType):
                 raise QAPISemError(
                     self.info,
                     "command's 'data' cannot take %s"
-                    % self.arg_type.describe())
+                    % arg_type.describe())
+            self.arg_type = arg_type
             if self.arg_type.variants and not self.boxed:
                 raise QAPISemError(
                     self.info,
@@ -874,8 +875,8 @@ def check(self, schema):
             if self.name not in self.info.pragma.command_returns_exceptions:
                 typ = self.ret_type
                 if isinstance(typ, QAPISchemaArrayType):
-                    typ = self.ret_type.element_type
                     assert typ
+                    typ = typ.element_type
                 if not isinstance(typ, QAPISchemaObjectType):
                     raise QAPISemError(
                         self.info,
@@ -911,13 +912,14 @@ def __init__(self, name, info, doc, ifcond, features, arg_type, boxed):
     def check(self, schema):
         super().check(schema)
         if self._arg_type_name:
-            self.arg_type = schema.resolve_type(
+            typ = schema.resolve_type(
                 self._arg_type_name, self.info, "event's 'data'")
-            if not isinstance(self.arg_type, QAPISchemaObjectType):
+            if not isinstance(typ, QAPISchemaObjectType):
                 raise QAPISemError(
                     self.info,
                     "event's 'data' cannot take %s"
-                    % self.arg_type.describe())
+                    % typ.describe())
+            self.arg_type = typ
             if self.arg_type.variants and not self.boxed:
                 raise QAPISemError(
                     self.info,
-- 
2.43.0