Introduction to mypy

Static type checking for Python

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We mentioned mypy as a must-have in a previous post about Python best practices — here, we want to introduce it with more details.

mypy, as the docs explain, is a “static type checker for Python”. This means, it adds type annotations and checks to the language Python, which is dynamically typed by design (types are inferred at runtime, as opposed…