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Support for Python Type Hints (PEP 484) #15926
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It would be helpful if matplotlib supported Python type hints (PEP 484, the typing module, etc.). I can attest that I, myself, have made mistakes using matplotlib that might have been more quickly resolved if type hints were available.
I realize that this is a significant change, requiring a significant effort. I may be able to contribute some time to this end.
Reacted by Marvin Kastner, Hannes Krumbiegel and beskep
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story645 commentedon Dec 13, 2019
Thank you for your offer to help. This was discussed in #13798 and on the dev call* and the consensus was that @tacaswell is open to matplotlib/matplotilb-typeshed if people are interested in writing and supporting pyi files, but that typing (especially in upstream scientific packages) isn't standardized enough yet for Matplotlib to adopt inline use.
*https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/In-Matplotlib-2019-meeting-agenda--AqWjIHu14j1631lSPjHsbDuRAg-aAmENlkgepgsMeDZtlsYu#:h2=No-3.8-syntax-before-2021-(dro
anntzer commentedon Dec 31, 2019
I'm going to close this as non-actionable given that this was discussed not so long ago in #13798 and I don't think the state of typing in Python changed significantly since then.