The most-wanted features by Python developers are static typing and strict type hinting, closely followed by performance improvements, Python Software Foundation survey results reveal.

Mypy, a code-linting project created to allow static type checking in Python, has been improved to benefit larger, more complex projects and speed up parsing. One of Python‘s big attractions is ...

That is, how can you enjoy Python as a dynamically typed language, while simultaneously getting some added sense of static-typing stability? One of the most popular answers is a system known as mypy, ...

Guido van Rossum, best known as designer of the Python programming language, recently sent out a proposal on the python-ideas mailing list for adding type annotations to Python function declarations.