[Python] Is it safe to ignore the "Signature incompatible" error with mypy when overriding...

I'm working on a subclass of aiogram.Bot to implement rate limiting for messages. However, when I override the send_message method, I get a mypy error about signature incompatibility. Here's a minimal version of my code:

from aiogram import Bot
from aiogram.types import Message
from aiolimiter import AsyncLimiter
from typing import Any, Coroutine

class RateLimitedBot(Bot):
def __init__(self, token: str, rate: int = 30, per: float = 1, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
super().__init__(token, *args, **kwargs)
self.limiter = AsyncLimiter(rate, per)

async def send_message(self, chat_id: int | str, text: str, **kwargs: Any) -> Coroutine[Any, Any, Message]:
async with self.limiter:
return await super().send_message(chat_id, text, **kwargs)


The error is:

Signature of "send_message" incompatible with supertype "Bot"


The signature of the superclass Bot is:

def send_message(self, chat_id: int | str, text: str,
business_connection_id: str | None = ..., and a lot of parameters...) -> Coroutine[Any, Any, Message]



Is it safe to ignore this mypy error, or is there a better way to handle it without breaking the type compatibility with aiogram?

The code works. Perhaps there are some other ways to extend send_message functionality?

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