GitHub - python/typing: Python static typing home. Hosts the documentation and a user help forum.

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Documentation and Support

The documentation for Python's static typing can be found at

typing.python.org

. You can get help in our

support forum

.

Improvements to the type system should be discussed on

Python's Discourse

, and are tracked in the

issues

in this repository.

For conversations that are more suitable to a chat platform, you can use one of the following:

gitter

discord

#type-hinting

channel

Repository Content

This GitHub repository is used for several things:

The documentation at

typing.python.org

is maintained in the

docs directory

. This includes the

specification

for the type system. See especially

the update procedure

for the spec.

A

discussion forum

for typing-related user help is hosted here.

Conformance test

for Python static type checkers. The

latest conformance test results

are here.

Historically, this repository also hosted:

The typing_extensions package, which now lives in the

typing_extensions

repo. It used to be in the typing_extensions directory.

A backport of the

typing module

for older Python versions. It was removed after all Python versions that lack typing in the standard library reached end of life. The last released version, supporting Python 2.7 and 3.4, is

available at PyPI

.