[Python] How to check if Mypy `# type: ignore` comments are still valid and required?

Imagine we have some giant legacy code base with a lot of files with ignored Mypy warnings:

def foobar():
x = some_external_class.some_method()[0] # type: ignore[ignore-some-mypy-warning]


Time to go...

Some parts of code were changed. Some parts of code is still the same. How to check every "ignore" comment to know: will I get an error if I remove it?

Desired output:

Checked 100500 files!
You do not need "ignore" comments anymore in the following files:
- spam.py:534
- eggs.py:31
- eggs.py:250


Are there any existing tools to achieve this? Any ideas about custom scripts?

The only idea that I have:

1. Write a script that will find and remember a file and a line of every Mypy comment.
2. Find and remove all Mypy comments.
3. Run Mypy check → store results.
4. Compare the Mypy check errors lines with a stored old lines.
5. Find a difference: if a comment was removed, but Mypy does not complain now about that line, then the comment must be removed.

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