I would love it if something like DefinitelyTyped existed for Python! It would be a great step forward for usability. It's unclear to me right now how to find types for third party libraries other than by googling "<library> type stubs" or by generating them myself, which is what I imagine most people are doing. It would be nice if we could share our work more easily. On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 7:49 PM Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
Working at Microsoft means I get asked semi-regularly about why the Python community has not set up a [DefinitelyTyped](https://definitelytyped.org/) equivalent, and I have historically said 🤷♂️. I have now been asked this enough times that I'm asking all of you if there's a specific reason beyond lack of time and resources so I can give a more informed answer next time this question comes up? I found https://github.com/python/typeshed/issues/2491 which didn't suggest any particular issue with the idea other than time and resources.
Or I guess another way to phrase the question is if someone created a site like DefinitelyTyped where things were highly automated and anyone could provide type stubs for any project on PyPI -- and maybe even automated initial type stubs -- would people be interested in such a thing or see any reasons why people would balk at it or not use it? _______________________________________________ Typing-sig mailing list -- typing-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to typing-sig-leave@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/typing-sig.python.org/