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A Python static typing update

juliank — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:50:21 +0000

It's awesome. We use it in python-apt, I made it pass mypy --check (with --implicit-optional for now) and found a lot of errors in python-apt's code on the way. Great work.

A Python static typing update

LtWorf — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:01:32 +0000

This library that I wrote makes use of annotations as well: https://github.com/ltworf/typedload

I basically use it to load json into NamedTuple, but it's quite flexible I think.

One problem is that the API of the typing module has been changing even over minor versions, so basically that library ended up having quite a lot of code that does if hasattr() or similar.

If they don't settle on an API, making use of annotations is extremely difficult.

A Python static typing update

jrn — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:25:07 +0000

https://lwn.net/Articles/690150/ mentioned a few other tools that consume type hints, like pytype and pycharm. Any updates on those?