gradual-typing

Recently, I gave a talk, Type Check your Django app at two conferences - Euro Python 2021 and PyCon India 2021. The talk was about adding Python gradual typing to Django using third-party package Django-stubs focussed heavily around Django Models. The blog post is the write-up of the talk. Here is the unofficial link recorded video of the PyCon India talk. Here is the link to PyCon India Slides. The slides to Euro Python Talk (both slides are similar). [Read More]

Python 3 introduced type annotation syntax. PEP 484 introduced a provisional module to provide these standard definitions and tools, along with some conventions for situations where annotations are not available. Python is a dynamic language and follows gradual typing. When a static type checker runs a python code, the type checker considers code without type hints as Any. def print_name(name): print(name) planet: str = "earth" In the above example, the name argument type hint will be Any since the type hint is missing while the type hint for the planet variable is a string. [Read More]