The most-wanted features by Python developers are static typing and strict type hinting, closely followed by performance improvements, Python Software Foundation survey results reveal.

I've grabbed Sequence from the typing module, which includes all three Python sequence types—strings, lists and tuples. Once I do that, all of the mypy problems disappear, because all of the arguments ...

While Python is still a dynamically typed language, in 2015, Python 3.5 gained support for Type Hints, which allow developers to include annotations that can be scrutinized by a type checker like ...

Indeed, Guido says, mypy could be seen as a lint-like static checker for Python to be used to check a program's type correctness at compile time, or when running it under mypy Python interpreter.

A new open source VS Code extension called Pyright has been created as a Microsoft "side project" to improve on current offerings for static type checking for the Python programming language. Deemed a ...