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Python static typing home. Hosts the documentation and a user help forum.

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205 open issues indexed

Upgrade `typing.type_check_only` to be applicable to variables(and maybe import statements) Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#955 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 22, 2021
Overhaul the python typing system to make typing a 'first class citizen' with a dedicated typing syntax, like match patterns Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

python/typing#953 · 7 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Nov 20, 2021
Request: an AssertingTypeGuard type for TypeGuard-like semantics Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#930 · 6 comments · 28 reactions · Opened Nov 9, 2021
Add a `import type` feature (like typescript) Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#928 · 4 comments · 37 reactions · Opened Nov 9, 2021
Consider loosening restrictions of `Final` Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#920 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 4, 2021
allow `...` in place of generic parameters Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#912 · 27 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 26, 2021
Libraries document Open

topic: documentation

python/typing#905 · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 7, 2021
Support for alternative generic inference algorithms Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#900 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2021
Should there be a `Numeric` type? Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#895 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2021
Tutorial document Open

topic: documentation

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python/typing#891 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2021
Best Practices document Open

topic: documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#851 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2021
Document Structure and Wishlist Open

topic: documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/typing#845 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2021
Spreading the word Open

topic: maintenance

python/typing#833 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2021
Allow `issubclass` for protocols with class variables Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#822 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2021
No way to have individual type variable substitutions in uniform tuples of parametrized types Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#815 · 2 comments · Opened May 26, 2021
Wrapper/Proxy Generic Type Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#802 · 14 comments · 37 reactions · Opened Apr 23, 2021
Introduce a Not type Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#801 · 27 comments · 29 reactions · Opened Apr 22, 2021
TypedDict with patterns as key names Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#795 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 5, 2021
Feature Request: Type hint for Fixed Length Homogeneous Sequences Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/typing#786 · 7 comments · 47 reactions · Opened Feb 11, 2021
Literal of enum values Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#781 · 10 comments · 100 reactions · Opened Jan 21, 2021
How to alias `Annotated` to a subscriptable type Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/typing#779 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 19, 2021
Generic MRO Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#777 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 17, 2021
TypeVar substitution in get_type_hints Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#776 · 10 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Jan 17, 2021
[feature] Get the type from a variable Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#769 · 14 comments · 74 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2020
Handle special object NotImplemented like type (like it done for None) Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#742 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2020
Monkey patching support Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#718 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 25, 2020
Assertion and checking functions Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#703 · 19 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 19, 2020
Conditionally load stubs based on specific version of package installed Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#693 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 12, 2019
Literal for sentinel values Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#689 · 20 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Dec 3, 2019
advanced SimpleNamespace typing Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#688 · 9 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Nov 26, 2019
Record Types Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#685 · 9 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Nov 11, 2019
Lower bound for TypeVars Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#674 · 8 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2019
Allow to use function objects as singletons Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#668 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2019
Shorthand for async function Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#663 · 8 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2019
a way to refer to result type of an overloaded function Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#641 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2019
Runtime Access to Generic Types on Class Method Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#629 · 17 comments · 49 reactions · Opened May 4, 2019
Annotating functions which don't raise exceptions Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#604 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jan 7, 2019
Optional class and protocol fields and methods Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#601 · 28 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Dec 17, 2018
Fixed-size, multi-type sequence Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#592 · 3 comments · 13 reactions · Opened Nov 19, 2018
AnyOf - Union for return types Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python/typing#566 · 41 comments · 23 reactions · Opened Jun 21, 2018
Add safer types of casts Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#565 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 19, 2018
Add typing.Reader and typing.Writer Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#564 · 10 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 16, 2018
Allow creating type aliases with type checked metadata attached Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/typing#555 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 25, 2018
Higher-Kinded TypeVars Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python/typing#548 · 222 comments · 557 reactions · Opened Mar 30, 2018
"Awaitable" is insufficiently expressive, as one may await something other than Futures Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#542 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 8, 2018
Generic versions of enum.Enum? Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python/typing#535 · 15 comments · 65 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2018
Syntax for typing multi-dimensional arrays Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#516 · 8 comments · 17 reactions · Opened Dec 10, 2017
Typing for multi-dimensional arrays Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#513 · 21 comments · 74 reactions · Opened Dec 7, 2017
Idea: add Char type to represent Text with size = 1 Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#510 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2017
Allow Ellipsis as annotation for inferred type Open

topic: feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python/typing#276 · 11 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Sep 3, 2016

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