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Static Typing with Python
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.. Introduction
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Guides
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Reference
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.. seealso::

   The documentation at https://mypy.readthedocs.io/ is relatively accessible
   and complete. Particularly refer to the "Type System Reference" section of
   the docs -- since the Python typing system is standardised via PEPs, this
   information should apply to most Python type checkers.

Specification
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   spec/index

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`

.. _contact:

Discussions and Support
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* `User help forum <https://github.com/python/typing/discussions>`_
* `User chat on Gitter <http://gitter.im/python/typing>`_
* `Developer mailing list <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/typing-sig@python.org/>`_

Typing-related Tools
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Type Checkers
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* `mypy <http://mypy-lang.org/>`_, the reference implementation for type
  checkers.
* `pyre <https://pyre-check.org/>`_, written in OCaml and optimized for
  performance.
* `pyright <https://github.com/microsoft/pyright>`_, a type checker that
  emphasizes speed.
* `pytype <https://google.github.io/pytype/>`_, checks and infers types for
  unannotated code.

Development Environments
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* `PyCharm <https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/>`_, an IDE that supports
  type stubs both for type checking and code completion.
* `Visual Studio Code <https://code.visualstudio.com/>`_, a code editor that
  supports type checking using mypy, pyright, or the
  `Pylance <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.vscode-pylance>`_
  extension.

Linters and Formatters
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* `black <https://black.readthedocs.io/>`_, a code formatter with support for
  type stub files.
* `flake8-pyi <https://github.com/ambv/flake8-pyi>`_, a plugin for the
  `flake8 <https://flake8.pycqa.org/>`_ linter that adds support for type
  stubs.

Type-Hint and Stub Integration
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* `autotyping <https://github.com/JelleZijlstra/autotyping>`_, a tool which infers simple types from their context and inserts them as inline type-hints.
* `merge_pyi <https://google.github.io/pytype/developers/tools.html#merge_pyi>`_, integrates .pyi signatures as inline type-hints in Python source code.
  This is a thin wrapper around ``ApplyTypeAnnotationsVisitor`` from `libCST <https://libcst.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_.

Typing PEPs
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See https://peps.python.org/topic/typing for a list of all typing-related PEPs.