[batbomb]

okay, so use type annotations and mypy --strict

[CydeWeys]

It's not my project; I'm just a collaborator. My experience has been that a very tiny minority of Python code out there is written in this style, so unless you're only starting projects from scratch, you can't benefit from it.

[batbomb]

you can gradually type (probably don't use --strict in that case). It might not be a ton of benefit if you aren't actually writing new code though.

There's a good document on this:

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/existing_code.html

[CydeWeys]

And that'd be fine if everyone were on board with it and that were the general direction of the project, but I don't think that's true.

I've never seen a strict, type-annotated Python project out there in the wild, and I've seen a decent amount of them. A random non-primary-contributor isn't going to have much luck stepping into an established project and getting everyone to go along with adding annotations to the whole thing.

And if I were starting a project from scratch, rather than coercing the language to do something it wasn't really designed for, I'd just use a language that has first-class support for types directly in the compiler, like Java or Go.

[totalperspectiv]

But at that point why not get something for they time you spend adding types and just use a different language?