typeshed stubs for mypy

[Pradip Caulagi]

Hello,

Is there any plans to add type annotations to Django itself? Or to
provide typeshed stubs so that we can run mypy on django projects?

Thanks,
Pradip

[Tim Graham]

My understanding is that adding type annotations must wait until we drop support for Python 2 which will happen after we cut the stable/1.11.x branch in January 2017.

[Florian Apolloner]

stub files would do it too, but all in all it seems much work for not much gain.

[Anssi Kääriäinen]

I think we can use type annotations in comments, and I do think this
could be useful in some cases as a hint to autocomplete systems in
IDEs.

What I'm afraid is that if we add annotations somewhere, we'll have
really hard time determining when to stop when requests for more type
hints arrive. So, unless we have easy to follow rules for when to
reject type hints, I'm with Florian - too much work for little gain.
(Or in other words, it is really easy to follow a rule where we reject
type hints always).

I've tested mypy a little, and while it might be really useful for
larger Django projetcts, it isn't there yet.

- Anssi

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[Pradip Caulagi]

On 21/04/16 11:26, Florian Apolloner wrote:
> stub files would do it too, but all in all it seems much work for not
> much gain.

I created some stub files here -
https://github.com/caulagi/django-mypy/tree/master/stubs/django. It is
not complete, but it is working for my toy example.

I used stubgen to create the files but there are some places where
stubgen gets it wrong. Should I post the examples here? Maybe in some
places we can tidy the Django code a bit to help stubgen?