Don't flag intentionally empty generators unreachable

mypy/checker.py

@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
     Var,
     WhileStmt,
     WithStmt,
+    YieldExpr,
     is_final_node,
 )
 from mypy.options import Options
@@ -1240,7 +1241,10 @@ def check_func_def(
                     # have no good way of doing this.
                     #
                     # TODO: Find a way of working around this limitation
-                    if len(expanded) >= 2:
+                    #
+                    # We suppress reachability warnings for empty generators (return; yield), since there's
+                    # no way to promote a function into a generator except by adding an "unreachable" yield.
+                    if len(expanded) >= 2 or _is_empty_generator(item):
                         self.binder.suppress_unreachable_warnings()
                     self.accept(item.body)
                 unreachable = self.binder.is_unreachable()
@@ -6961,6 +6965,21 @@ def is_literal_not_implemented(n: Expression) -> bool:
     return isinstance(n, NameExpr) and n.fullname == "builtins.NotImplemented"
 
 
+def _is_empty_generator(func: FuncItem) -> bool:
+    """
+    Checks whether a function's body is 'return; yield' (the yield being added only
+    to promote the function into a generator).
+    """
+    return (
+        len(body := func.body.body) == 2
+        and isinstance(ret_stmt := body[0], ReturnStmt)
+        and (ret_stmt.expr is None or is_literal_none(ret_stmt.expr))
+        and isinstance(expr_stmt := body[1], ExpressionStmt)
+        and isinstance(yield_expr := expr_stmt.expr, YieldExpr)
+        and (yield_expr.expr is None or is_literal_none(yield_expr.expr))
+    )
+
+
 def builtin_item_type(tp: Type) -> Type | None:
     """Get the item type of a builtin container.
 

test-data/unit/check-unreachable-code.test

@@ -1446,3 +1446,19 @@ def f() -> None:
     Foo()['a'] = 'a'
     x = 0 # This should not be reported as unreachable
 [builtins fixtures/exception.pyi]
+
+[case testIntentionallyEmptyGenerator]
+# flags: --warn-unreachable
+from typing import Generator
+
+def f() -> Generator[None, None, None]:
+    return
+    yield
+
+[case testIntentionallyEmptyGenerator_None]
+# flags: --warn-unreachable
+from typing import Generator
+
+def f() -> Generator[None, None, None]:
+    return None
+    yield None