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Mon Apr 20 23:01:20 CEST 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-April/139243.html

On 21 April 2015 at 08:50, Harry Percival <harry.percival at gmail.com> wrote:
>> stub files are only used to type-check *users* of a module. If you want a
>> module itself to be type-checked you have to use inline type hints
>
> is this a fundamental limitation, or just the current state of tooling?

AIUI its the fundamental design. Stubs don't annotate python code,
they *are* annotated code themselves. They aren't merged with the
observed code at all.

Could they be? Possibly. I don't know how much work that would be.

-Rob

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