Mypy Release Notes¶
Next Release¶
Mypy 2.0¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 2.0.0 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. There are also changes to options and defaults. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Enable --local-partial-types by Default¶
This flag affects the inference of types based on assignments in other scopes. For now, explicitly disabling this continues to be supported, but this support will be removed in the future as the legacy behaviour is hard to support with other current and future features in mypy, like the daemon or the new implementation of flexible redefinitions.
Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi, Jukka Lehtosalo, Shantanu in PR 21163.
Enable --strict-bytes by Default¶
Per PEP 688, mypy no longer treats bytearray and memoryview
values as assignable to the bytes type.
Contributed by Shantanu in PR 18371.
New Behavior for --allow-redefinition¶
The --allow-redefinition flag now behaves like --allow-redefinition-new in mypy 1.20
and earlier. The new behavior is generally more flexible. For example, you can have different
types for a variable in different blocks:
# mypy: allow-redefinition
def foo(cond: bool) -> None:
if cond:
for x in ["a", "b"]:
# Type of "x" is "str" here
...
else:
for x in [1, 2]:
# Type of "x" is "int" here
...
The new behavior requires --local-partial-types, which is now enabled by default.
However, --allow-redefinition doesn’t allow giving two type annotations for the same
variable. The old behavior (sometimes) allows this. Code like this now generates an error
when using --allow-redefinition:
def foo() -> None:
x: list[int] = []
...
x: list[str] = [] # Error: "x" redefined
...
You can still use --allow-redefinition-old to fall back to the old behavior. We have no
plans to remove the legacy behavior, but the old functionality is maintained on a best effort
basis.
Contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo in PR 21276.
Parallel Type Checking¶
Mypy now supports experimental parallel and incremental type checking. Use --num-workers N
or -nN to use N worker processes to type check in parallel. The speedup depends on the
import structure of your codebase and your environment, but for large projects we’ve seen
performance gains of up to 5x when using 8 worker processes.
Parallel type checking implicitly enables the new native parser. There are still some minor semantic differences between parallel and non-parallel modes, which we will be fixing in future mypy releases.
Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi, with additional contributions from Emma Smith and Jukka Lehtosalo.
Recent related changes since the last release:
Freeze garbage collection in parallel workers for 4-5% speedup (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21302)
Expose
--num-workersand--native-parser(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21387)Split type checking into interface and implementation in parallel workers (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21119)
Batch module groups for parallel processing (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21287)
Optimize parallel worker startup (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21203)
Parse files in parallel when possible (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21175)
Use parallel parsing at all stages (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21266)
Fix sequential bottleneck in parallel parsing (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21291)
Fail fast when a user tries to generate reports with parallel workers (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21341)
Partially support old NumPy plugin in parallel type checking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21324)
Handle reachability consistently in parallel type checking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21322)
Always respect
@no_type_checkin parallel type checking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21320)Minor fixes in parallel checking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21319)
Fix plugin logic in parallel type checking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21252)
Fix Windows IPC race condition when using parallel checking (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21228)
Report parallel worker exit status on receive failure (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21224)
Drop Support for Targeting Python 3.9¶
Mypy no longer supports type checking code with --python-version 3.9.
Use --python-version 3.10 or newer.
Contributed by Shantanu, Marc Mueller in PR 21243.
Remove Special Casing of Legacy Bundled Stubs¶
Mypy used to bundle stubs for a few packages in versions 0.812 and earlier. To navigate the
transition, mypy used to report missing types for these packages even if --ignore-missing-imports
was set. Mypy now consistently respects --ignore-missing-imports for all packages.
Contributed by Shantanu in PR 18372.
Prevent Assignment to None for Non-Optional Class Variables with Type Comments¶
Mypy used to allow assignment to None for class variables when using type comments. This was a common idiom in Python 3.5 and earlier, prior to the introduction of variable annotations. However, this was a soundness hole and has now been removed.
Contributed by Shantanu in PR 20054.
librt.strings: String and Bytes Primitives for Mypyc¶
In mypy 1.20, we introduced librt as a standard library
for mypyc that fills in some gaps in the Python standard library and the C API.
This release adds the new module librt.strings, which contains utilities for building
string and bytes objects, and for accessing and generating binary data:
StringWriterandBytesWriterclasses allow quickly buildingstrandbytesobjects from parts.read_*andwrite_*functions provide fast reading and writing of binary-encoded data.
Refer to the documentation for the details.
Contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo.
Mypyc Improvements¶
Document
librt.time(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21372)Mark
librt.time.time()non-experimental (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21310)Fix
librt.timeprimitive now that it is no longer experimental (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21318)Fix
librtAPI/ABI version checks (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21311)Generate more type methods for classes with attribute dictionaries (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21290)
Fix reference counting for tuple items during deallocation (Shantanu, PR 21245)
Release new instances when
__init__raises (Shantanu, PR 21248)Fix
@propertygetter memory leak (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21230)Fix semantics for walrus expression in tuple (Shantanu, PR 21249)
Fix crash on import errors during cleanup (Shantanu, PR 21247)
Fix reference leak in str index (Shantanu, PR 21251)
Fix memory leak in integer true division (Shantanu, PR 21246)
Fix reference leaks in
list.clear()/dict.clear()(Shantanu, PR 21244)Resolve type aliases in function specialization (esarp, PR 21233)
Report an error if an acyclic class inherits from non-acyclic (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21227)
Fix
b64decodeto match new CPython behavior (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21200)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Changes to Messages¶
Improve error messages for unexpected keyword arguments in overloaded functions (Kevin Kannammalil, PR 20592)
Don’t suggest
Foo[...]whenFoo(arg=...)is used in annotation (Yosof Badr, PR 21238)Mention what codes are actually ignored in “not covered by type: ignore comment” note (wyattscarpenter, PR 19904)
Improve error messages when positional argument is missing (Kevin Kannammalil, PR 20591)
Improve “name is not defined” errors with fuzzy matching (Kevin Kannammalil, PR 20693)
Add suggestions for misspelled module imports (Kevin Kannammalil, PR 20695)
Performance Improvements¶
Stubtest Improvements¶
Documentation Updates¶
Improvements to the Native Parser¶
The new native parser is still experimental.
Make new parser consistent with the old one (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21377)
Support
--package-rootwith the native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21321)Improve call expressions in type annotations with the native parser (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21300)
Depend on
ast-serializeby default (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21297)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix narrowing for
AbstractSetandMapping(Shantanu, PR 21352)Preserve gradual guarantee when narrowing
Anyunion via equality (Shantanu, PR 21368)Make type variable upper bound narrowing symmetric (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21350)
Behave consistently when type-checking a stub package directly (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21330)
Add support for
Final[...]in dataclasses (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21334)Narrow more sequence parents (Shantanu, PR 21327)
Better narrowing for enums and other types with known equality (Shantanu, PR 21281)
Fix pathspec error (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21296)
Use sharding for the SQLite cache (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21292)
Limit type inference context fallback to the walrus operator only (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21294)
Support
.git/info/excludefor--exclude-gitignore(RogerJinIS, PR 21286)Let
--allow-redefinitionwiden a global in a function withNoneinitialization (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21285)Delete Python 2 extra (Shantanu, PR 18374)
No longer narrow final globals in functions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21241)
Narrow unions containing
Anyin conditional branches (Shantanu, PR 21231)Propagate narrowing within chained comparisons (Shantanu, PR 21160)
Add proper lazy deserialization (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21198)
Add
install_typesto options affecting cache (Brian Schubert, PR 21070)Narrow
Anyin conditional type checks (Shantanu, PR 21167)Fix exception handler target location in new parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21185)
Improve traceback display (Shantanu, PR 21155)
Include two more files in the sdist:
CREDITSand the typeshedREADME(Michael R. Crusoe, PR 21131)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Brian Schubert
Ethan Sarp
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jukka Lehtosalo
Kevin Kannammalil
Leo Ji
Marc Mueller
Michael R. Crusoe
Piotr Sawicki
Pranav Manglik
RogerJinIS
Shantanu
Vaggelis Danias
wyattscarpenter
Yosof Badr
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.20¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.20.0 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Planned Changes to Defaults and Flags in Mypy 2.0¶
As a reminder, we are planning to enable --local-partial-types by default in mypy 2.0, which
will likely be the next feature release. This will often require at least minor code changes. This
option is implicitly enabled by mypy daemon, so this makes the behavior of daemon and non-daemon
modes consistent.
Note that this release improves the compatibility of --local-partial-types significantly to
make the switch easier (see below for more).
This can also be configured in a mypy configuration file (use False to disable):
local_partial_types = True
For more information, refer to the documentation.
We will also enable --strict-bytes by default in mypy 2.0. This usually requires at most
minor code changes to adopt. For more information, refer to the
documentation.
Finally, --allow-redefinition-new will be renamed to --allow-redefinition. If you want
to continue using the older --allow-redefinition semantics which are less flexible (e.g.
limited support for conditional redefinitions), you can switch to --allow-redefinition-old,
which is currently supported as an alias to the legacy --allow-redefinition behavior.
To use --allow-redefinition in the upcoming mypy 2.0, you can’t use --no-local-partial-types.
For more information, refer to the
documentation.
Better Type Narrowing¶
Mypy’s implementation of narrowing has been substantially reworked. Mypy will now narrow more
aggressively, more consistently, and more correctly. In particular, you are likely to notice new
narrowing behavior in equality expressions (==), containment expressions (in),
match statements, and additional expressions providing type guards.
Note that mypy (and other Python type checkers) do not model the potential for various non-local
operations to invalidate narrowing assumptions. This means mypy may conclude that some of your code
is unreachable and
avoid further checking of it. The --warn-unreachable flag is useful for highlighting these cases.
To reset narrowing, you can insert dummy reassignments, for instance var = var will reset
all narrowing of var.attr.
Future work includes better narrowing on initial assignments, more narrowing to Literal types,
and better checking of unreachable code.
Contributed by Shantanu Jain.
Rework narrowing logic for equality and identity (Shantanu, PR 20492)
Refactor equality and identity narrowing for clarity (Shantanu, PR 20595)
Treat NotImplemented as a singleton type (Shantanu, PR 20601)
Improve narrowing logic for Enum int and str subclasses (Shantanu, PR 20609)
Narrow types based on collection containment (Shantanu, PR 20602)
Refactor and improve narrowing for type(x) == t checks (Shantanu, PR 20634)
Narrow for type expr comparisons to type exprs (Shantanu, PR 20639)
Narrowing for comparisons against
x.__class__(Shantanu, PR 20642)Better narrowing with custom equality (Shantanu, PR 20643)
Use a single pass for core narrowing logic, add comments (Shantanu, PR 20659)
Narrowing for final type objects (Shantanu, PR 20661)
Avoid narrowing type[T] (Shantanu, PR 20662)
Avoid widening to Any for checks like
type(x) is type(y: Any)(Shantanu, PR 20663)Preserve some lost narrowing, cleanup (Shantanu, PR 20674)
Fix narrowing related code for types with overloaded
__new__(Shantanu, PR 20676)Fix isinstance with unions of tuples (Shantanu, PR 20677)
Fix regression to chained containment (Shantanu, PR 20688)
Improve else handling with custom equality (Shantanu, PR 20692)
Better model runtime in isinstance and type checks (Shantanu, PR 20675)
Use –warn-unreachable and –strict-equality in more tests (Shantanu, PR 20707)
Model exact narrowing with type(x) checks (Shantanu, PR 20703)
Short term fix for bytes narrowing (Shantanu, PR 20704)
Preserve narrowing in unreachable code (Shantanu, PR 20710)
Fix bug when narrowing union containing custom eq against custom eq (Shantanu, PR 20754)
Fix narrowing for unions (Shantanu, PR 20728)
Unsoundly narrow away from None with custom eq (Shantanu, PR 20756)
Improve narrowing with numeric types (Shantanu, PR 20727)
Fix narrowing with final type objects (Shantanu, PR 20743)
Further improve match statement narrowing against unions (Shantanu, PR 20744)
Avoid narrowing to NewType (Shantanu, PR 20766)
Better match narrowing for irrefutable sequence patterns (Shantanu, PR 20782)
Remove prohibit_none_typevar_overlap (Shantanu, PR 20864)
Fix match statement narrowing reachability for tuples (Shantanu, PR 20896)
Better handling of generics when narrowing (Shantanu, PR 20863)
Better match narrowing for type objects (Shantanu, PR 20872)
Narrow Callable generic return types (Shantanu, PR 20868)
Better match narrowing for unions of type objects (Shantanu, PR 20905)
Improve reachability in narrowing logic (Shantanu, PR 20660)
Better match narrowing for irrefutable mapping patterns (Shantanu, PR 20906)
Fix match statement semantic reachability (Shantanu, PR 20968)
Add some additional narrowing test cases (Shantanu, PR 20598)
Move tests to check-narrowing , improve them slightly (Shantanu, PR 20637)
Add more tests for narrowing logic (Shantanu, PR 20672)
More testing related improvements and updates (Shantanu, PR 20709)
Add –warn-unreachable to more tests (Shantanu, PR 20977)
Drop Support for Python 3.9¶
Mypy no longer supports running with Python 3.9, which has reached end of life.
When running mypy with Python 3.10+, it is still possible to type check code
that needs to support Python 3.9 with the --python-version 3.9 argument.
Support for this will be dropped in the first half of 2026!
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 20156).
Mypyc Accelerated Mypy Wheels for ARM Windows and Free Threading¶
For best performance, mypy can be compiled to C extension modules using mypyc. This makes
mypy 3-5x faster than when interpreted with pure Python. We now build and upload mypyc
accelerated mypy wheels for win_arm64 and cp314t-... to PyPI, making it easy for Windows
users on ARM and those using the free theading builds for Python 3.14 to realise this speedup
– just pip install the latest mypy.
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR mypy_mypyc-wheels#106, PR mypy_mypyc-wheels#110).
Improved Compatibility for Local Partial Types¶
Compatibility between mypy’s default behavior and the --local-partial-types flag
is now improved. This improves compatibility between mypy daemon and non-daemon modes,
since the mypy daemon requires local partial types to be enabled.
In particular, code like this now behaves consistently independent of whether local partial types are enabled or not:
x = None
def foo() -> None:
global x
x = 1
# The inferred type of 'x' is always 'int | None'.
Also, we are planning to turn local partial types on by default in mypy 2.0 (to be released soon), and this makes the change much less disruptive. Explicitly disabling local partial types will continue to be supported, but the support will likely be deprecated and removed eventually, as the legacy behavior is hard to support together with some important changes we are working on, in addition to being incompatible with the mypy daemon.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 20938).
Python 3.14 T-String Support (PEP 750)¶
Mypy now supports t-strings that were introduced in Python 3.14.
Experimental New Parser¶
If you install mypy using pip install mypy[native-parser] and run mypy with
--native-parser, you can experiment with a new Python parser. It is based on
the Ruff parser, and it’s more efficient than the default parser. It will also enable
access to all Python syntax independent of which Python version you use to run mypy.
The new parser is still not feature-complete and has known issues.
Related changes:
Add work-in-progress implementation of a new Python parser (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20856)
Skip redundant analysis pass when using the native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21015)
Add t-string support to native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21007)
Handle hex bigint literals in native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20988)
Pass all relevant options to native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20984)
Support
@no_type_checkwith native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20959)Fix error code handling in native parser (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20952)
Add
ast-serializeas an optional dependency (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21028)Use
native-parserinstead ofnative-parsefor optional dependency (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21115)
Performance Improvements¶
Mypy now uses a binary cache format (fixed-format cache) by default to speed up incremental
checking. You can still use --no-fixed-format-cache to use the legacy JSON cache format,
but we will remove the JSON cache format in a future release. Mypy includes a tool to convert
individual fixed-format cache files (.ff) to the JSON format to make it possible to inspect
cache contents:
python -m mypy.exportjson <path> ...
If the SQLite cache is enabled, you will first need to convert the SQLite cache into
individual files using the misc/convert-cache.py
tool available in the mypy GitHub repository. You can also disable the SQLite
cache using --no-sqlite-cache.
The SQLite cache (--sqlite-cache) is now enabled by default. It improves mypy
performance significantly in certain environments where slow file system operations
used to be a bottleneck.
List of all performance improvements (for mypyc improvements there is a separate section below):
Flip fixed-format cache to on by default (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20758)
Enable
--sqlite-cacheby default (Shantanu, PR 21041)Save work on emitting ignored diagnostics (Shantanu, PR 20621)
Skip logging and stats collection calls if they are no-ops (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20839)
Speed up large incremental builds by optimizing internal state construction (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20838)
Speed up suppressed dependencies options processing (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20806)
Avoid path operations that need syscalls (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20802)
Use faster algorithm for topological sort (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20790)
Replace old topological sort (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20805)
Fix quadratic performance in dependency graph loading for incremental builds (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20786)
Micro-optimize transitive dependency hash calculation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20798)
Speed up options snapshot calculation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20797)
Micro-optimize read buffering, metastore
abspath, path joining (Shantanu, PR 20810)Speed up type comparisons and hashing for literal types (Shantanu, PR 20423)
Optimize overloaded signatures check (asce, PR 20378)
Avoid unnecessary work when checking deferred functions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20860)
Improve
--allow-redefinition-newperformance for code with loops (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20862)Avoid
setattr/getattrwith fixed format cache (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20826)
Improvements to Allowing Redefinitions¶
Mypy now allows significantly more flexible variable redefinitions when using --allow-redefinition-new.
In particular, function parameters can now be redefined with a different type:
# mypy: allow-redefinition-new, local-partial-types
def process(items: list[str]) -> None:
# Reassign parameter to a completely different type.
# Without --allow-redefinition-new, this is a type error because
# list[list[str]] is not compatible with list[str].
items = [item.split() for item in items]
...
In mypy 2.0, we will update --allow-redefinition to mean --allow-redefinition-new.
This release adds --allow-redefinition-old as an alias of --allow-redefinition, which
can be used to continue using the old redefinition behavior in mypy 2.0 and later.
List of changes:
Add
--allow-redefinition-oldas an alias of--allow-redefinition(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20764)Allow redefinitions for function arguments (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20853)
Fix regression on redefinition in deferred loop (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20879)
Fix loop convergence with redefinitions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20865)
Make sure new redefinition semantics only apply to inferred variables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20909)
Fix union edge case in function argument redefinition (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20908)
Show an error when old and new redefinition are enabled in a file (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20920)
--allow-redefinition-newis no longer experimental (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21110)Fix type inference for nested union types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20912)
Fix type inference regression for multiple variables in loops (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20892)
Improve type inference for empty collections in conditional contexts (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20851)
Incremental Checking Improvements¶
This release includes multiple fixes to incremental type checking:
Invalidate cache when
--enable-incomplete-featurechanges (kaushal trivedi, PR 20849)Add back support for
warn_unused_configs(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20801)Recover from corrupted fixed-format cache meta file (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20780)
Distinguish not found versus skipped modules (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20812)
Fix undetected submodule deletion on warm run (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20784)
Fix staleness on changed follow-imports options (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20773)
Verify indirect dependencies reachable on incremental run (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20735)
Fix indirect dependencies for protocols (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20752)
Show error locations in other modules on warm runs (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20635)
Don’t read errors from cache on silent import (Sjoerd Job Postmus, PR 20509)
More robust fix for re-export of
__all__(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20487)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fix crash on partially typed namespace package (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20742)
Fix internal error caused by the generic type alias with an unpacked list (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20689)
Fix crash when missing format character (Shantanu, PR 20524)
Fix crash when passing literal values as type arguments to variadic generics (Aaron Wieczorek, PR 20543)
Fix crash on circular star import in incremental mode (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20511)
Fix crash with tuple unpack inside TypeVar default (Marc Mueller, PR 20456)
Fix crash on typevar with forward reference used in other module (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20334)
Fix crash on star import of redefinition (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20333)
Fix crash involving Unpack-ed
TypeVarTuple(Shantanu, PR 20323)Fix crashes caused by type variable defaults in-place modifications (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20139)
Fix crash when calling
len()with no arguments (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20774)Fix crash when checking
async forinside nested comprehensions (A5rocks, PR 20540)Fix
ParamSpecrelated crash (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20119)
Mypyc: Faster Imports on macOS¶
Imports in native (compiled) modules that target other native modules that are compiled together are now significantly faster on macOS, especially on the first run after a compiled package has been installed. This also speeds up the first mypy run after installation/update on macOS.
This was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo (PR 21101).
librt: Mypyc Standard Library¶
Mypyc now has a dedicated standard library, librt, to provide basic features that are optimized
for compiled code. They are faster than corresponding Python stdlib functionality. There is no
plan to replace the Python stdlib, though. We’ll only include a carefully selected set of features
that help with common performance bottlenecks in compiled code.
Currently, we provide librt.base64 that has optimized SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple
Data) base64 encoding and decoding functions. In future mypyc releases we are planning to
add efficient data structures, string/bytes utilities, and more.
Use python3 -m pip install librt to make librt available to compiled modules. Compiled
modules don’t require librt unless they explicitly import librt. If you install mypy, you
will also get a compatible version of librt as a dependency. We will keep librt backward
compatible, so you should always be able to update to a newer version of the library.
Related changes:
Add minimal, experimental
librt.base64module (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20226)Use faster base64 encode implementation in
librt.base64(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20237)Add efficient
librt.base64.b64decode(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20263)Enable SIMD for
librt.base64on x86-64 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20244)Add primitive for
librt.base64.b64decode(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20272)Add
urlsafe_b64encodeandurlsafe_b64decodetolibrt.base64(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20274)Make
librt.base64non-experimental (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20783)Support pyodide for Python 3.12 (Michael R. Crusoe, PR 20342)
Support pyodide via the NEON intrinsics (Michael R. Crusoe, PR 20316)
Fix
librtcompilation on platforms with OpenMP (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20583)Fix cross-compiling
librtby enabling x86_64 optimizations with pragmas (James Le Cuirot, PR 20815)Use existing SIMD CPU dispatch by customizing build flags (Michael R. Crusoe, PR 20253)
Document
librtandlibrt.base64(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21114)
Mypyc: Acyclic Classes¶
Mypyc now supports defining acyclic native classes that don’t participate in the tracing garbage collection:
from mypy_extensions import mypyc_attr
@mypyc_attr(acyclic=True)
class Item:
def __init__(self, key: str, value: str) -> None:
self.key = key
self.value = value
Allocating and freeing instances of acyclic classes is faster than regular native class instances, and they use less memory, but if they participate in reference cycles, there may be memory leaks.
This was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo (PR 20795).
Additional Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix range loop variable off-by-one after loop exit (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21098)
Fix memory leak on property setter call (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21095)
Fix
ClassVarself-references in class bodies (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21011)Fix cross-module class attribute defaults causing KeyError (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21012)
Fix shadow vtable misalignment for
@propertygetters/setters (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21010)Fix lambda inside comprehension (Vaggelis Danias, PR 21009)
Use cached ASCII characters in
CPyStr_GetItem(Vaggelis Danias, PR 21035)Speed up int to bytes conversion (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21036)
Add missing primitive documentation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21037)
Fix undefined behavior in generated C (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 21094)
Fix vtable construction for deep trait inheritance (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20917)
Fix
__init_subclass__running beforeClassVarinstantiations (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20916)Add support for
str.lower()andstr.upper()(Vaggelis Danias, PR 20948)Add
str.isdigit()primitive (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20893)Add
str.isalnum()primitive (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20852)Add
str.isspace()primitive (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20842)Reduce memory usage when compiling large files (Vaggelis Danias, PR 20897)
Generate error if using Python 3.14 t-string (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20899)
Fix undefined attribute in nested coroutines (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20654)
Do not emit tracebacks with negative line numbers (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20641)
Fix crash on multiple nested decorated functions with same name (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20666)
Fix
Finalload in unreachable branches (BobTheBuidler, PR 20617)Add new primitive for
int.to_bytes(BobTheBuidler, PR 19674)Support constant folding in f-string to
strconversion (BobTheBuidler, PR 19970)Implement
bytes.endswith(esarp, PR 20447)Fix coercion from short tagged int to fixed-width int (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20587)
Fix generation of function wrappers for decorated functions (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20584)
Generate function wrappers for each callable class instance (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20575)
Speed up
ord(str[n])by inlining (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20578)Add inline primitives for
bytes.__getitem__(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20552)Add primitive type for
bytearray(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20551)Fix and clean up
bytearraysupport in primitives (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20550)Enable
--strict-bytesby default in mypyc (and require it) (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20548)Fix exception reraising when awaiting a future (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20547)
Add inline primitives for BytesBuilder get item and set item (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20546)
Optimize loops over
enumerate,map,zip,range, and other builtins with known lengths (BobTheBuidler, PR 19927)Raise
ValueErrorif int too big for native int type (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20385)Fix generator regression with empty tuple (BobTheBuidler, PR 20371)
Improve constant folding for
len()of string literals and Final values (BobTheBuidler, PR 20074)Add primitive for
bytes.startswith(esarp, PR 20387)Fix calling async methods through vectorcall (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20393)
Extend loop optimization to use constant folding for determining sequence lengths (BobTheBuidler, PR 19930)
Wrap async functions with function-like type (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20260)
Add a primitive for bytes
translatemethod (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20305)Add primitives for bytes and str multiply (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20303)
Match int arguments to primitives with native int parameters (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20299)
Allow disabling extra flags with
MYPYC_NO_EXTRA_FLAGSenvironment variable (James Hilliard, PR 20507)Fix unsupported imports for type annotations (Lukas Geiger, PR 20390)
Fix unaligned memory access in librt internal helper function (Gregor Riepl, PR 20474)
Fix build issue (James Hilliard, PR 20510)
Removed Flags --force-uppercase-builtins and --force-union-syntax¶
The --force-uppercase-builtins flag was deprecated and has been a no-op since mypy 1.17.0.
Since mypy has dropped support for Python 3.9, the --force-union-syntax flag is no longer
necessary.
Stubgen Improvements¶
Fix mis-parsing of double colon (“::”) (Jeremy Nimmer, PR 20285)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Attempt to resolve decorators from their type (Shantanu, PR 20867)
Fix crash on instances with redefined
__class__(sobolevn, PR 20926)Improve checking of positional-only parameters in dunder methods (Brian Schubert, PR 19593)
Check
Finalvariables with literal values against runtime (Vikash Kumar, PR 20858)Fix duplicate errors with invalid line numbers (Joren Hammudoglu, PR 20417)
Ignore
__conditional_annotations__(Joren Hammudoglu, PR 20392)Transparent
@type_check_onlytypes (Joren Hammudoglu, PR 20352)Check runtime availability of private types not marked
@type_check_only(Brian Schubert, PR 19574)
Documentation Updates¶
Document semantics of function argument redefinition (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20910)
Update common issues: document how the type ignore must come first (wyattscarpenter, PR 20886)
Update “type inference and annotations” (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20619)
Document unreachability handling of
return NotImplemented(wyattscarpenter, PR 20561)
Changes to Messages¶
Simpler/cleaner
reveal_type()(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20929)Use “parameter” instead of “argument” in overload error (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20994)
Use “parameter” instead of “argument” in unpacking error (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20683)
Use “type arguments” instead of “type parameters” for bare generics (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20494)
Update “arguments” to “parameters” (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20711)
Use “parameter” instead of “argument” in default value error messages (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20964)
Update error message for parameter overlap in TypedDict (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20956)
Correct “Duplicate argument” error messages (Kai (Kazuya Ito), PR 20957)
Use standard formatting for note on unexpected keyword (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20808)
Fix edge cases in pretty formatting (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20809)
Add function definition notes for missing named argument errors (Kevin Kannammalil, PR 20794)
Make overloaded constructors consistent in error messages (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20483)
Improve error message for invalid Python package (Shantanu, PR 20482)
Emit end line/column in JSON format for span tracking (Adam Turner, PR 20734)
Wrap callable in union syntax (Marc Mueller, PR 20406)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Unify handling of self attributes in daemon (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21025)
Improve support for
hasattr()(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20914)Warn when
@disjoint_baseis used on protocols or TypedDicts (Brian Schubert, PR 21029)Model tuple type aliases better (Shantanu, PR 20967)
Fix incorrect type inference for container literals inside loops (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20875)
Fix edge case in type comparison for type variables with narrowed bounds (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20874)
Prohibit access via class for instance-only attributes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20855)
Update JSON export tool to support binary meta cache files (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20096)
Better handling for uncaught top-level exceptions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20749)
Attrs field level
kw_only=Falseoverrideskw_only=Trueat class level (getzze, PR 20949)Fix
__slots__issue with deferred base (Shantanu, PR 20573)Fix deferral logic for special types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20678)
Fix false negatives in walrus versus inference fallback logic (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20622)
Fix enum value inference with user-defined data type mixin (E. M. Bray, PR 16320)
Fix incorrect classification of class attributes versus enum members (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19687)
Improve type inference when finding common types for callable types (Shantanu, PR 18406)
Remove special case for Union type context (Shantanu, PR 20610)
Evaluate argument expressions in runtime evaluation order (Shantanu, PR 20491)
Allow empty type applications for
ParamSpec(A5rocks, PR 20572)Make
X[()]count as a type application (A5rocks, PR 20568)Accept
valueas keyword argument inTypeAliasType(Ali Hamdan, PR 20556)Avoid treating
passand...as no-op for reachability (Shantanu, PR 20488)Fix specialization leak in generic
TypedDict.update()(Aaron Wieczorek, PR 20517)Fix false positive redundant expression warnings with
isinstance()onAny | Protocolunions (Randolf Scholz, PR 20450)Fix type checking of class-scope imports accessed via
selforcls(bzoracler, PR 20480)Prevent synthetic intersections from leaking to module public interfaces (bzoracler, PR 20459)
Fix package build failure when the compiler types are not defined (Steven Pitman, PR 20429)
Fix
--strict-equalityfor iteratively visited code (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19635)Allow literals as kwargs dict keys (Shantanu, PR 20416)
Error for invalid varargs and varkwargs to
Anycall (Shantanu, PR 20324)Fix type inference for binary operators with tuple subclasses (Randolf Scholz, PR 19046)
Improve type inference for ternary expressions with literals and collections (Randolf Scholz, PR 19563)
Do not treat match value patterns as
isinstancechecks (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20146)Fix noncommutative joins with bounded TypeVars (Shantanu, PR 20345)
Fix error location reporting for
**restpatterns in match statements (Marc Mueller, PR 20407)Fix matching against union of tuples (Saul Shanabrook, PR 19600)
Allow
types.NoneTypein match cases (A5rocks, PR 20383)Treat
Literal["xyz"]as iterable (Shantanu, PR 20347)Treat functions that return
Noneas returningNone(Shantanu, PR 20350)Fix str unpack type propagation, use dedicated error code (Shantanu, PR 20325)
Unpack unions inside tuples in except handlers (asce, PR 17762)
Ignore empty error codes from
type: ignore(Donghoon Nam, PR 20052)Make
NoneTypeannotation error use a new error code (wyattscarpenter, PR 20222)Fail with an explicit error on PyPy (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20384)
Add hidden
--overwrite-union-syntaxoption (Marc Mueller, PR 20332)Fix
possibly-undefinedfalse-positive with nesting (grayjk, PR 20276)Fix spurious
possibly-undefinederrors in for-else withbreak(Łukasz Langa, PR 19696)Avoid false
possibly-undefinederrors due to omitted unrequired else statements (Christoph Tyralla, PR 20149)Fix generator expression behavior for
reveal_type(michaelm-openai, PR 20594)Fix error on instance property and init-only variable with the same name in a dataclass (Roberto Fernández Iglesias, PR 17219)
Improve error messages when
__module__or__qualname__are used as type annotations (A5rocks, PR 20288)Check for multiple type var tuples for PEP 695 (A5rocks, PR 20289)
Improve interaction between
--local-partial-typesand hashability (Shantanu, PR 20719)Stop looking for
.gitignoreat top level of working tree (Colin Watson, PR 20775)Try fixing Cygwin build (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20830)
Fix daemon dependencies in
diff-cache.pytool (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20837)Support fixed-format cache in
diff-cache.pytool (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20827)Update
convert-cache.pytool to work with fixed-format caches (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20761)Write errors to a separate cache file (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21022)
Write ignored lines to cache meta (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20747)
Serialize raw errors in cache metas (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20372)
Include
misc/{diff-cache,apply-cache-diff}.pyin sdist (Michael R. Crusoe, PR 21096)
Typeshed updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.20.1¶
Always disable sync in SQLite cache (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21184)
Temporarily skip few base64 tests (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21193)
Revert
dict.__or__typeshed change (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21186)Fix narrowing for match case with variadic tuples (Shantanu, PR 21192)
Avoid narrowing
type[T]in type calls (Shantanu, PR 21174)Fix regression for catching empty tuple in except (Shantanu, PR 21153)
Fix reachability for frozenset and dict view narrowing (Shantanu, PR 21151)
Fix narrowing with chained comparison (Shantanu, PR 21150)
Avoid narrowing to unreachable at module level (Shantanu, PR 21144)
Allow dangerous identity comparisons to
Anytyped variables (Shantanu, PR 21142)--warn-unused-configshould not be a strict flag (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21139)
Mypy 1.20.2¶
Use WAL with SQLite cache and fix close (Shantanu, PR 21154)
Adjust SQLite journal mode (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 21217)
Correctly aggregate narrowing information on parent expressions (Shantanu, PR 21206)
Fix regression related to generic callables (Shantanu, PR 21208)
Fix regression by avoiding widening types in some contexts (Shantanu, PR 21242)
Fix slicing in non-strict optional mode (Shantanu, PR 21282)
mypyc: Fix match statement semantics for “or” pattern (Shantanu, PR 21156)
mypyc: Fix issue with module dunder attributes (Piotr Sawicki, PR 21275)
Initial support for Python 3.15.0a8 (Marc Mueller, PR 21255)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
A5rocks
Aaron Wieczorek
Adam Turner
Ali Hamdan
asce
BobTheBuidler
Brent Westbrook
Brian Schubert
bzoracler
Chris Burroughs
Christoph Tyralla
Colin Watson
Donghoon Nam
E. M. Bray
Emma Smith
Ethan Sarp
George Ogden
getzze
grayjk
Gregor Riepl
Ivan Levkivskyi
James Hilliard
James Le Cuirot
Jeremy Nimmer
Joren Hammudoglu
Kai (Kazuya Ito)
kaushal trivedi
Kevin Kannammalil
Lukas Geiger
Łukasz Langa
Marc Mueller
Michael R. Crusoe
michaelm-openai
Neil Schemenauer
Piotr Sawicki
Randolf Scholz
Roberto Fernández Iglesias
Saul Shanabrook
Shantanu Jain
Sjoerd Job Postmus
sobolevn
Stanislav Terliakov
Steven Pitman
Vaggelis Danias
Vikash Kumar
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.19¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.19.0 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Python 3.9 Support Ending Soon¶
This is the last mypy feature release that supports Python 3.9, which reached end of life in October 2025.
Performance Improvements¶
Fixed‑Format Cache Improvements¶
Mypy uses a cache by default to speed up incremental runs by reusing partial results
from earlier runs. Mypy 1.18 added a new binary fixed-format cache representation as
an experimental feature. The feature is no longer experimental, and we are planning
to enable it by default in a future mypy release (possibly 1.20), since it’s faster
and uses less space than the original, JSON-based cache format. Use
--fixed-format-cache to enable the fixed-format cache.
Mypy now has an extra dependency on the librt PyPI package, as it’s needed for
cache serialization and deserialization.
Mypy ships with a tool to convert fixed-format cache files to the old JSON format. Example of how to use this:
$ python -m mypy.exportjson .mypy_cache/.../my_module.data.ff
This way existing use cases that parse JSON cache files can be supported when using the new format, though an extra conversion step is needed.
This release includes these improvements:
Force-discard cache if cache format changed (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20152)
Add tool to convert binary cache files to JSON (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20071)
Use more efficient serialization format for long integers in cache files (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20151)
More robust packing of floats in fixed-format cache (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20150)
Use self-descriptive cache with type tags (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20137)
Use fixed format for cache metas (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20088)
Make metas more compact; fix indirect suppression (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20075)
Use dedicated tags for most common cached instances (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19762)
PEP 747: Annotating Type Forms¶
Mypy now recognizes TypeForm[T] as a type and implements
PEP 747. The feature is still experimental,
and it’s disabled by default. Use --enable-incomplete-feature=TypeForm to
enable type forms. A type form object captures the type information provided by a
runtime type expression. Example:
from typing_extensions import TypeForm
def trycast[T](typx: TypeForm[T], value: object) -> T | None: ...
def example(o: object) -> None:
# 'int | str' below is an expression that represents a type.
# Unlike type[T], TypeForm[T] can be used with all kinds of types,
# including union types.
x = trycast(int | str, o)
if x is not None:
# Type of 'x' is 'int | str' here
...
This feature was contributed by David Foster (PR 19596).
Fixes to Crashes¶
Do not push partial types to the binder (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20202)
Fix crash on recursive tuple with Hashable (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20232)
Fix crash related to decorated functions (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20203)
Do not abort constructing TypeAlias if only type parameters hold us back (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20162)
Use the fallback for
ModuleSpecearly if it can never be resolved (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20167)Do not store deferred NamedTuple fields as redefinitions (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20147)
Discard partial types remaining after inference failure (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20126)
Fix an infinite recursion bug (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20127)
Fix IsADirectoryError for namespace packages when using –linecoverage-report (wyattscarpenter, PR 20109)
Fix an internal error when creating cobertura output for namespace package (wyattscarpenter, PR 20112)
Allow type parameters reusing the name missing from current module (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20081)
Prevent TypeGuardedType leak from narrowing declared type as part of type variable bound (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20046)
Fix crash on invalid unpack in base class (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19962)
Traverse ParamSpec prefix where we should (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19800)
Fix daemon crash related to imports (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20271)
Mypyc: Support for __getattr__, __setattr__, and __delattr__¶
Mypyc now has partial support for __getattr__, __setattr__ and
__delattr__ methods in native classes.
Note that native attributes are not stored using __dict__. Setting attributes
directly while bypassing __setattr__ is possible by using
super().__setattr__(...) or object.__setattr__(...), but not via __dict__.
Example:
class Demo:
_data: dict[str, str]
def __init__(self) -> None:
# Initialize data dict without calling our __setattr__
super().__setattr__("_data", {})
def __setattr__(self, name: str, value: str) -> None:
print(f"Setting {name} = {value!r}")
if name == "_data":
raise AttributeError("'_data' cannot be set")
self._data[name] = value
def __getattr__(self, name: str) -> str:
print(f"Getting {name}")
try:
return self._data[name]
except KeyError:
raise AttributeError(name)
d = Demo()
d.x = "hello"
d.y = "world"
print(d.x)
print(d.y)
Related PRs:
Miscellaneous Mypyc Improvements¶
Fix
__new__in native classes with inheritance (Piotr Sawicki, PR 20302)Fix crash on
superin generator (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20291)Fix calling base class async method using
super()(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20254)Fix async or generator methods in traits (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20246)
Optimize equality check with string literals (BobTheBuidler, PR 19883)
Fix inheritance of async defs (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 20044)
Reject invalid
mypyc_attrargs (BobTheBuidler, PR 19963)Optimize
isinstancewith tuple of primitive types (BobTheBuidler, PR 19949)Optimize away first index check in for loops if length > 1 (BobTheBuidler, PR 19933)
Fix broken exception/cancellation handling in async def (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19951)
Transform
object.__new__inside__new__(Piotr Sawicki, PR 19866)Fix crash with NewType and other non-class types in incremental builds (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19837)
Optimize container creation from expressions with length known at compile time (BobTheBuidler, PR 19503)
Allow per-class free list to be used with inheritance (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19790)
Fix object finalization (Marc Mueller, PR 19749)
Allow defining a single-item free “list” for a native class (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19785)
Speed up unary “not” (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19774)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Documentation Updates¶
Update duck type compatibility: mention strict-bytes and mypy 2.0 (wyattscarpenter, PR 20121)
Document
--enable-incomplete-feature TypeForm(wyattscarpenter, PR 20173)Change the inline TypedDict example (wyattscarpenter, PR 20172)
Replace
Listwith built‑inlist(PEP 585) (Thiago J. Barbalho, PR 20000)Improve junit documentation (wyattscarpenter, PR 19867)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix annotated with function as type keyword list parameter (KarelKenens, PR 20094)
Fix errors for raise NotImplemented (Shantanu, PR 20168)
Don’t let help formatter line-wrap URLs (Frank Dana, PR 19825)
Do not cache fast container types inside lambdas (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 20166)
Respect force-union-syntax flag in error hint (Marc Mueller, PR 20165)
Fix type checking of dict type aliases (Shantanu, PR 20170)
Use pretty callable formatting more often for callable expressions (Theodore Ando, PR 20128)
Use dummy concrete type instead of
Anywhen checking protocol variance (bzoracler, PR 20110)PEP 696: Fix swapping TypeVars with defaults (Randolf Scholz, PR 19449)
Fix narrowing of class pattern with union type (Randolf Scholz, PR 19517)
Do not emit unreachable warnings for lines that return
NotImplemented(Christoph Tyralla, PR 20083)Fix matching against
typing.CallableandProtocoltypes (Randolf Scholz, PR 19471)Make
--prettywork better on multi-line issues (A5rocks, PR 20056)More precise return types for
TypedDict.get(Randolf Scholz, PR 19897)Prevent false unreachable warnings for
@finalinstances that occur when strict optional checking is disabled (Christoph Tyralla, PR 20045)Check class references to catch non-existent classes in match cases (A5rocks, PR 20042)
Do not sort unused error codes in unused error codes warning (wyattscarpenter, PR 20036)
Fix
[name-defined]false positive inclass A[X, Y=X]:case (sobolevn, PR 20021)Filter SyntaxWarnings during AST parsing (Marc Mueller, PR 20023)
Make untyped decorator its own error code (wyattscarpenter, PR 19911)
Support error codes from plugins in options (Sigve Sebastian Farstad, PR 19719)
Allow returning Literals in
__new__(James Hilton-Balfe, PR 15687)Inverse interface freshness logic (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19809)
Do not report exhaustive-match after deferral (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19804)
Make
untyped_calls_excludeinvalidate cache (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19801)Add await to empty context hack (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19777)
Consider non-empty enums assignable to Self (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19779)
Typeshed updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.19.1¶
Fix noncommutative joins with bounded TypeVars (Shantanu, PR 20345)
Respect output format for cached runs by serializing raw errors in cache metas (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20372)
Allow
types.NoneTypein match cases (A5rocks, PR 20383)Fix mypyc generator regression with empty tuple (BobTheBuidler, PR 20371)
Fix crash involving Unpack-ed TypeVarTuple (Shantanu, PR 20323)
Fix crash on star import of redefinition (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20333)
Fix crash on typevar with forward ref used in other module (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20334)
Fail with an explicit error on PyPy (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 20389)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
A5rocks
BobTheBuidler
bzoracler
Chainfire
Christoph Tyralla
David Foster
Frank Dana
Guo Ci
iap
Ivan Levkivskyi
James Hilton-Balfe
jhance
Joren Hammudoglu
Jukka Lehtosalo
KarelKenens
Kevin Kannammalil
Marc Mueller
Michael Carlstrom
Michael J. Sullivan
Piotr Sawicki
Randolf Scholz
Shantanu
Sigve Sebastian Farstad
sobolevn
Stanislav Terliakov
Stephen Morton
Theodore Ando
Thiago J. Barbalho
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.18¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.18.1 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Mypy Performance Improvements¶
Mypy 1.18.1 includes numerous performance improvements, resulting in about 40% speedup compared to 1.17 when type checking mypy itself. In extreme cases, the improvement can be 10x or higher. The list below is an overview of the various mypy optimizations. Many mypyc improvements (discussed in a separate section below) also improve performance.
Type caching optimizations have a small risk of causing regressions. When
reporting issues with unexpected inferred types, please also check if
--disable-expression-cache will work around the issue, as it turns off some of
these optimizations.
Improve self check performance by 1.8% (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19768, 19769, 19770)
Optimize fixed-format deserialization (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19765)
Use macros to optimize fixed-format deserialization (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19757)
Two additional micro‑optimizations (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19627)
Another set of micro‑optimizations (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19633)
Cache common types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19621)
Skip more method bodies in third‑party libraries for speed (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19586)
Simplify the representation of callable types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19580)
Add cache for types of some expressions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19505)
Use cache for dictionary expressions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19536)
Use cache for binary operations (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19523)
Cache types of type objects (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19514)
Avoid duplicate work when checking boolean operations (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19515)
Optimize generic inference passes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19501)
Speed up the default plugin (Jukka Lehtosalo, PRs 19385 and 19462)
Remove nested imports from the default plugin (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19388)
Micro‑optimize type expansion (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19461)
Micro‑optimize type indirection (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19460)
Micro‑optimize the plugin framework (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19464)
Avoid temporary set creation in subtype checking (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19463)
Subtype checking micro‑optimization (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19384)
Return early where possible in subtype check (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19400)
Deduplicate some types before joining (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19409)
Speed up type checking by caching argument inference context (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19323)
Optimize binding method self argument type and deprecation checks (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19556)
Keep trivial instance types/aliases during expansion (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19543)
Fixed‑Format Cache (Experimental)¶
Mypy now supports a new cache format used for faster incremental builds. It makes
incremental builds up to twice as fast. The feature is experimental and
currently only supported when using a compiled version of mypy. Use --fixed-format-cache
to enable the new format, or fixed_format_cache = True in a configuration file.
We plan to enable this by default in a future mypy release, and we’ll eventually deprecate and remove support for the original JSON-based format.
Unlike the JSON-based cache format, the new binary format is currently
not easy to parse and inspect by mypy users. We are planning to provide a tool to
convert fixed-format cache files to JSON, but details of the output JSON may be
different from the current JSON format. If you rely on being able to inspect
mypy cache files, we recommend creating a GitHub issue and explaining your use
case, so that we can more likely provide support for it. (Using
MypyFile.read(binary_data) to inspect cache data may be sufficient to support
some use cases.)
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 19668, 19735, 19750, 19681, 19752, 19815).
Flexible Variable Definitions: Update¶
Mypy 1.16.0 introduced --allow-redefinition-new, which allows redefining variables
with different types, and inferring union types for variables from multiple assignments.
The feature is now documented in the --help output, but the feature is still experimental.
We are planning to enable this by default in mypy 2.0, and we will also deprecate the
older --allow-redefinition flag. Since the new behavior differs significantly from
the older flag, we encourage users of --allow-redefinition to experiment with
--allow-redefinition-new and create a GitHub issue if the new functionality doesn’t
support some important use cases.
This feature was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo.
Inferred Type for Bare ClassVar¶
A ClassVar without an explicit type annotation now causes the type of the variable to be inferred from the initializer:
from typing import ClassVar
class Item:
# Type of 'next_id' is now 'int' (it was 'Any')
next_id: ClassVar = 1
...
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 19573).
Disjoint Base Classes (@disjoint_base, PEP 800)¶
Mypy now understands disjoint bases (PEP 800): it recognizes the @disjoint_base
decorator, and rejects class definitions that combine mutually incompatible base classes,
and takes advantage of the fact that such classes cannot exist in reachability and
narrowing logic.
This class definition will now generate an error:
# Error: Class "Bad" has incompatible disjoint bases
class Bad(str, Exception):
...
This feature was contributed by Jelle Zijlstra (PR 19678).
Miscellaneous New Mypy Features¶
Improvements to Match Statements¶
Add temporary named expressions for match subjects (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18446)
Fix unwrapping of assignment expressions in match subject (Marc Mueller, PR 19742)
Omit errors for class patterns against object (Marc Mueller, PR 19709)
Remove unnecessary error for certain match class patterns (Marc Mueller, PR 19708)
Use union type for captured vars in or pattern (Marc Mueller, PR 19710)
Prevent final reassignment inside match case (Omer Hadari, PR 19496)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fix crash with variadic tuple arguments to a generic type (Randolf Scholz, PR 19705)
Fix crash when enable_error_code in pyproject.toml has wrong type (wyattscarpenter, PR 19494)
Prevent crash for dataclass with PEP 695 TypeVarTuple on Python 3.13+ (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19565)
Fix crash on settable property alias (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19615)
Experimental Free-threading Support for Mypyc¶
All mypyc tests now pass on free-threading Python 3.14 release candidate builds. The performance of various micro-benchmarks scale well across multiple threads.
Free-threading support is still experimental. Note that native attribute access (get and set), list item access and certain other operations are still unsafe when there are race conditions. This will likely change in the future. You can follow the area-free-threading label in the mypyc issues tracker to follow progress.
Related PRs:
Mypyc: Support __new__¶
Mypyc now has rudimentary support for user-defined __new__ methods.
This feature was contributed by Piotr Sawicki (PR 19739).
Mypyc: Faster Generators and Async Functions¶
Generators and calls of async functions are now faster, sometimes by 2x or more.
Related PRs:
Speed up for loops over native generators (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19415)
Speed up native‑to‑native calls using await (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19398)
Call generator helper directly in await expressions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19376)
Speed up generator allocation with per‑type freelists (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19316)
Miscellaneous Mypyc Improvements¶
Special‑case certain Enum method calls for speed (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19634)
Fix issues related to subclassing and undefined attribute tracking (Chainfire, PR 19787)
Fix invalid C function signature (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19773)
Speed up implicit
__ne__(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19759)Speed up equality with optional str/bytes types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19758)
Speed up access to empty tuples (BobTheBuidler, PR 19654)
Speed up calls with
*args(BobTheBuidler, PRs 19623 and 19631)Speed up calls with
**kwargs(BobTheBuidler, PR 19630)Optimize
type(x),x.__class__, and<type>.__name__(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19691, 19683)Specialize
bytes.decodefor common encodings (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19688)Speed up
inoperations using final fixed‑length tuples (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19682)Optimize f‑string building from final values (BobTheBuidler, PR 19611)
Add dictionary set item for exact dict instances (BobTheBuidler, PR 19657)
Cache length when iterating over immutable types (BobTheBuidler, PR 19656)
Fix name conflict related to attributes of generator classes (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19535)
Fix segfault from heap type objects with a static docstring (Brian Schubert, PR 19636)
Unwrap NewType to its base type for additional optimizations (BobTheBuidler, PR 19497)
Generate an export table only for separate compilation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19521)
Speed up
isinstancewith built‑in types (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19435)Use native integers for some sequence indexing (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19426)
Speed up
isinstance(obj, list)(Piotr Sawicki, PR 19416)Report error on reserved method names (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19407)
Speed up string equality (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19402)
Raise
NameErroron undefined names (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19395)Use per‑type freelists for nested functions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19390)
Simplify comparison of tuple elements (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19396)
Generate introspection signatures for compiled functions (Brian Schubert, PR 19307)
Fix undefined attribute checking special case (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19378)
Fix comparison of tuples with different lengths (Piotr Sawicki, PR 19372)
Speed up
list.clear(Jahongir Qurbonov, PR 19344)Speed up
weakref.proxy(BobTheBuidler, PR 19217)Speed up
weakref.ref(BobTheBuidler, PR 19099)Speed up
str.count(BobTheBuidler, PR 19264)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Add temporary
--ignore-disjoint-basesflag to ease PEP 800 migration (Joren Hammudoglu, PR 19740)Flag redundant uses of
@disjoint_base(Jelle Zijlstra, PR 19715)Improve signatures for
__init__of C extension classes (Stephen Morton, PR 18259)Handle overloads with mixed positional‑only parameters (Stephen Morton, PR 18287)
Use “parameter” (not “argument”) in error messages (PrinceNaroliya, PR 19707)
Don’t require
@disjoint_basewhen__slots__imply finality (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 19701)Allow runtime‑existing aliases of
@type_check_onlytypes (Brian Schubert, PR 19568)More detailed checking of type objects in stubtest (Stephen Morton, PR 18251)
Support running stubtest in non-UTF8 terminals (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19085)
Documentation Updates¶
Add idlemypyextension to IDE integrations (CoolCat467, PR 18615)
Document that
objectis often preferable toAnyin APIs (wyattscarpenter, PR 19103)Include a detailed listing of flags enabled by
--strict(wyattscarpenter, PR 19062)Update “common issues” (reveal_type/reveal_locals; note on orjson) (wyattscarpenter, PR 19059, 19058)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Remove deprecated
--new-type-inferenceflag (the new algorithm has long been default) (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19570)Use empty context as a fallback for return expressions when outer context misleads inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19767)
Fix forward references in type parameters of over‑parameterized PEP 695 aliases (Brian Schubert, PR 19725)
Don’t expand PEP 695 aliases when checking node fullnames (Brian Schubert, PR 19699)
Don’t use outer context for ‘or’ expression inference when LHS is Any (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19748)
Recognize buffer protocol special methods (Brian Schubert, PR 19581)
Support attribute access on enum members correctly (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19422)
Check
__slots__assignments on self types (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19332)Move self‑argument checks after decorator application (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19490)
Infer empty list for
__slots__and module__all__(Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19348)Use normalized tuples for fallback calculation (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19111)
Preserve literals when joining similar types (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19279)
Allow adjacent conditionally‑defined overloads (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19042)
Check property decorators more strictly (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19313)
Support properties with generic setters (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19298)
Generalize class/static method and property alias support (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19297)
Re‑widen custom properties after narrowing (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19296)
Avoid erasing type objects when checking runtime cover (Shantanu, PR 19320)
Include tuple fallback in constraints built from tuple types (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19100)
Somewhat better isinstance support on old‑style unions (Shantanu, PR 19714)
Improve promotions inside unions (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19245)
Treat uninhabited types as having all attributes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19300)
Improve metaclass conflict checks (Robsdedude, PR 17682)
Fixes to metaclass resolution algorithm (Robsdedude, PR 17713)
PEP 702 @deprecated: handle “combined” overloads (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19626)
PEP 702 @deprecated: include overloads in snapshot descriptions (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19613)
Ignore overload implementation when checking
__OP__/__rOP__compatibility (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18502)Support
_value_as a fallback for ellipsis Enum members (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19352)Sort arguments in TypedDict overlap messages (Marc Mueller, PR 19666)
Fix handling of implicit return in lambda (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19642)
Improve behavior of uninhabited types (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19648)
Fix overload diagnostics when
*argsand**kwargsboth match (Shantanu, PR 19614)Further fix overload diagnostics for
*args/**kwargs(Shantanu, PR 19619)Show type variable name in “Cannot infer type argument” (Brian Schubert, PR 19290)
Fail gracefully on unsupported template strings (PEP 750) (Brian Schubert, PR 19700)
Revert colored argparse help for Python 3.14 (Marc Mueller, PR 19721)
Update stubinfo for latest typeshed (Shantanu, PR 19771)
Fix dict assignment when an incompatible same‑shape TypedDict exists (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19592)
Fix constructor type for subclasses of Any (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19295)
Fix TypeGuard/TypeIs being forgotten in some cases (Brian Schubert, PR 19325)
Fix TypeIs negative narrowing for unions of generics (Brian Schubert, PR 18193)
dmypy suggest: Fix incorrect signature suggestion when a type matches a module name (Brian Schubert, PR 18937)
dmypy suggest: Fix interaction with
__new__(Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18966)dmypy suggest: Support Callable / callable Protocols in decorator unwrapping (Anthony Sottile, PR 19072)
Fix missing error when redeclaring a type variable in a nested generic class (Brian Schubert, PR 18883)
Fix for overloaded type object erasure (Shantanu, PR 19338)
Fix TypeGuard with call on temporary object (Saul Shanabrook, PR 19577)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.18.2¶
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Ali Hamdan
Anthony Sottile
BobTheBuidler
Brian Schubert
Chainfire
Charlie Denton
Christoph Tyralla
CoolCat467
Daniel Hnyk
Emily
Emma Smith
Ethan Sarp
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jahongir Qurbonov
Jelle Zijlstra
Joren Hammudoglu
Jukka Lehtosalo
Marc Mueller
Omer Hadari
Piotr Sawicki
PrinceNaroliya
Randolf Scholz
Robsdedude
Saul Shanabrook
Shantanu
Stanislav Terliakov
Stephen Morton
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.17¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.17 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Optionally Check That Match Is Exhaustive¶
Mypy can now optionally generate an error if a match statement does not
match exhaustively, without having to use assert_never(...). Enable
this by using --enable-error-code exhaustive-match.
Example:
# mypy: enable-error-code=exhaustive-match
import enum
class Color(enum.Enum):
RED = 1
BLUE = 2
def show_color(val: Color) -> None:
# error: Unhandled case for values of type "Literal[Color.BLUE]"
match val:
case Color.RED:
print("red")
This feature was contributed by Donal Burns (PR 19144).
Further Improvements to Attribute Resolution¶
This release includes additional improvements to how attribute types and kinds are resolved. These fix many bugs and overall improve consistency.
Handle corner case: protocol/class variable/descriptor (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19277)
Fix a few inconsistencies in protocol/type object interactions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19267)
Refactor/unify access to static attributes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19254)
Remove inconsistencies in operator handling (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19250)
Make protocol subtyping more consistent (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18943)
Fixes to Nondeterministic Type Checking¶
Previous mypy versions could infer different types for certain expressions across different runs (typically depending on which order certain types were processed, and this order was nondeterministic). This release includes fixes to several such issues.
Fix nondeterministic type checking by making join with explicit Protocol and type promotion commute (Shantanu, PR 18402)
Fix nondeterministic type checking caused by nonassociative of None joins (Shantanu, PR 19158)
Fix nondeterministic type checking caused by nonassociativity of joins (Shantanu, PR 19147)
Fix nondeterministic type checking by making join between
typeand TypeVar commute (Shantanu, PR 19149)
Remove Support for Targeting Python 3.8¶
Mypy now requires --python-version 3.9 or greater. Support for targeting Python 3.8 is
fully removed now. Since 3.8 is an unsupported version, mypy will default to the oldest
supported version (currently 3.9) if you still try to target 3.8.
This change is necessary because typeshed stopped supporting Python 3.8 after it reached its End of Life in October 2024.
Initial Support for Python 3.14¶
Mypy is now tested on 3.14 and mypyc works with 3.14.0b3 and later. Binary wheels compiled with mypyc for mypy itself will be available for 3.14 some time after 3.14.0rc1 has been released.
Note that not all features are supported just yet.
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 19164)
Deprecated Flag: --force-uppercase-builtins¶
Mypy only supports Python 3.9+. The --force-uppercase-builtins flag is now
deprecated as unnecessary, and a no-op. It will be removed in a future version.
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 19176)
Mypyc: Improvements to Generators and Async Functions¶
This release includes both performance improvements and bug fixes related to generators and async functions (these share many implementation details).
Fix exception swallowing in async try/finally blocks with await (Chainfire, PR 19353)
Fix AttributeError in async try/finally with mixed return paths (Chainfire, PR 19361)
Make generated generator helper method internal (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19268)
Free coroutine after await encounters StopIteration (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19231)
Use non-tagged integer for generator label (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19218)
Merge generator and environment classes in simple cases (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19207)
Mypyc: Partial, Unsafe Support for Free Threading¶
Mypyc has minimal, quite memory-unsafe support for the free threaded builds of 3.14. It is also only lightly tested. Bug reports and experience reports are welcome!
Here are some of the major limitations:
Free threading only works when compiling a single module at a time.
If there is concurrent access to an object while another thread is mutating the same object, it’s possible to encounter segfaults and memory corruption.
There are no efficient native primitives for thread synthronization, though the regular
threadingmodule can be used.Some workloads don’t scale well to multiple threads for no clear reason.
Related PRs:
Other Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Derive .c file name from full module name if using multi_file (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19278)
Support overriding the group name used in output files (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19272)
Add note about using non-native class to subclass built-in types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19236)
Make some generated classes implicitly final (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19235)
Don’t simplify module prefixes if using separate compilation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19206)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Add import for
typesin__exit__method signature (Alexey Makridenko, PR 19120)Add support for including class and property docstrings (Chad Dombrova, PR 17964)
Don’t generate
Incomplete | None = Noneargument annotation (Sebastian Rittau, PR 19097)Support several more constructs in stubgen’s alias printer (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18888)
Miscellaneous Fixes and Improvements¶
Combine the revealed types of multiple iteration steps in a more robust manner (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19324)
Improve the handling of “iteration dependent” errors and notes in finally clauses (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19270)
Lessen dmypy suggest path limitations for Windows machines (CoolCat467, PR 19337)
Fix type ignore comments erroneously marked as unused by dmypy (Charlie Denton, PR 15043)
Fix misspelled
exhaustive-matcherror code (johnthagen, PR 19276)Fix missing error context for unpacking assignment involving star expression (Brian Schubert, PR 19258)
Fix and simplify error de-duplication (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19247)
Disallow
ClassVarin type aliases (Brian Schubert, PR 19263)Add script that prints list of compiled files when compiling mypy (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19260)
Fix help message url for “None and Optional handling” section (Guy Wilson, PR 19252)
Display fully qualified name of imported base classes in errors about incompatible overrides (Mikhail Golubev, PR 19115)
Avoid false
unreachable,redundant-expr, andredundant-castswarnings in loops more robustly and efficiently, and avoid multiplerevealed typenotes for the same line (Christoph Tyralla, PR 19118)Fix type extraction from
isinstancechecks (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19223)Erase stray type variables in
functools.partial(Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18954)Make inferring condition value recognize the whole truth table (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18944)
Support type aliases,
NamedTupleandTypedDictin constrained TypeVar defaults (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18884)Move dataclass
kw_onlyfields to the end of the signature (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19018)Provide a better fallback value for the
python_versionoption (Marc Mueller, PR 19162)Avoid spurious non-overlapping equality error with metaclass with
__eq__(Michael J. Sullivan, PR 19220)Narrow type variable bounds (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19183)
Add classifier for Python 3.14 (Marc Mueller, PR 19199)
Capitalize syntax error messages (Charulata, PR 19114)
Infer constraints eagerly if actual is Any (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19190)
Include walrus assignments in conditional inference (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19038)
Use PEP 604 syntax when converting types to strings (Marc Mueller, PR 19179)
Use more lower-case builtin types in error messages (Marc Mueller, PR 19177)
Fix example to use correct method of Stack (Łukasz Kwieciński, PR 19123)
Forbid
.popofReadonlyNotRequiredTypedDict items (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19133)Emit a friendlier warning on invalid exclude regex, instead of a stacktrace (wyattscarpenter, PR 19102)
Enable ANSI color codes for dmypy client in Windows (wyattscarpenter, PR 19088)
Extend special case for context-based type variable inference to unions in return position (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18976)
Mypy 1.17.1¶
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alexey Makridenko
Brian Schubert
Chad Dombrova
Chainfire
Charlie Denton
Charulata
Christoph Tyralla
CoolCat467
Donal Burns
Guy Wilson
Ivan Levkivskyi
johnthagen
Jukka Lehtosalo
Łukasz Kwieciński
Marc Mueller
Michael J. Sullivan
Mikhail Golubev
Sebastian Rittau
Shantanu
Stanislav Terliakov
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.16¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.16 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Different Property Getter and Setter Types¶
Mypy now supports using different types for a property getter and setter:
class A:
_value: int
@property
def foo(self) -> int:
return self._value
@foo.setter
def foo(self, x: str | int) -> None:
try:
self._value = int(x)
except ValueError:
raise Exception(f"'{x}' is not a valid value for 'foo'")
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 18510).
Flexible Variable Redefinitions (Experimental)¶
Mypy now allows unannotated variables to be freely redefined with
different types when using the experimental --allow-redefinition-new
flag. You will also need to enable --local-partial-types. Mypy will
now infer a union type when different types are assigned to a
variable:
# mypy: allow-redefinition-new, local-partial-types
def f(n: int, b: bool) -> int | str:
if b:
x = n
else:
x = str(n)
# Type of 'x' is int | str here.
return x
Without the new flag, mypy only supports inferring optional types (X | None) from multiple assignments, but now mypy can infer arbitrary
union types.
An unannotated variable can now also have different types in different code locations:
# mypy: allow-redefinition-new, local-partial-types
...
if cond():
for x in range(n):
# Type of 'x' is 'int' here
...
else:
for x in ['a', 'b']:
# Type of 'x' is 'str' here
...
We are planning to turn this flag on by default in mypy 2.0, along
with --local-partial-types. The feature is still experimental and
has known issues, and the semantics may still change in the
future. You may need to update or add type annotations when switching
to the new behavior, but if you encounter anything unexpected, please
create a GitHub issue.
This was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo (PR 18727, PR 19153).
Stricter Type Checking with Imprecise Types¶
Mypy can now detect additional errors in code that uses Any types or has missing function annotations.
When calling dict.get(x, None) on an object of type dict[str, Any], this
now results in an optional type (in the past it was Any):
def f(d: dict[str, Any]) -> int:
# Error: Return value has type "Any | None" but expected "int"
return d.get("x", None)
Type narrowing using assignments can result in more precise types in
the presence of Any types:
def foo(): ...
def bar(n: int) -> None:
x = foo()
# Type of 'x' is 'Any' here
if n > 5:
x = str(n)
# Type of 'x' is 'str' here
When using --check-untyped-defs, unannotated overrides are now
checked more strictly against superclass definitions.
Related PRs:
Improvements to Attribute Resolution¶
This release includes several fixes to inconsistent resolution of attribute, method and descriptor types.
Consolidate descriptor handling (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18831)
Make multiple inheritance checking use common semantics (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18876)
Make method override checking use common semantics (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18870)
Fix descriptor overload selection (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18868)
Handle union types when binding
self(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18867)Make variable override checking use common semantics (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18847)
Make descriptor handling behave consistently (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18831)
Make Implementation for Abstract Overloads Optional¶
The implementation can now be omitted for abstract overloaded methods, even outside stubs:
from abc import abstractmethod
from typing import overload
class C:
@abstractmethod
@overload
def foo(self, x: int) -> int: ...
@abstractmethod
@overload
def foo(self, x: str) -> str: ...
# No implementation required for "foo"
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 18882).
Option to Exclude Everything in .gitignore¶
You can now use --exclude-gitignore to exclude everything in a
.gitignore file from the mypy build. This behaves similar to
excluding the paths using --exclude. We might enable this by default
in a future mypy release.
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 18696).
Selectively Disable Deprecated Warnings¶
It’s now possible to selectively disable warnings generated from
warnings.deprecated
using the --deprecated-calls-exclude
option:
# mypy --enable-error-code deprecated
# --deprecated-calls-exclude=foo.A
import foo
foo.A().func() # OK, the deprecated warning is ignored
# file foo.py
from typing_extensions import deprecated
class A:
@deprecated("Use A.func2 instead")
def func(self): pass
...
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 18641)
Annotating Native/Non-Native Classes in Mypyc¶
You can now declare a class as a non-native class when compiling with mypyc. Unlike native classes, which are extension classes and have an immutable structure, non-native classes are normal Python classes at runtime and are fully dynamic. Example:
from mypy_extensions import mypyc_attr
@mypyc_attr(native_class=False)
class NonNativeClass:
...
o = NonNativeClass()
# Ok, even if attribute "foo" not declared in class body
setattr(o, "foo", 1)
Classes are native by default in compiled modules, but classes that use certain features (such as most metaclasses) are implicitly non-native.
You can also explicitly declare a class as native. In this case mypyc will generate an error if it can’t compile the class as a native class, instead of falling back to a non-native class:
from mypy_extensions import mypyc_attr
from foo import MyMeta
# Error: Unsupported metaclass for a native class
@mypyc_attr(native_class=True)
class C(metaclass=MyMeta):
...
Since native classes are significantly more efficient that non-native classes, you may want to ensure that certain classes always compiled as native classes.
This feature was contributed by Valentin Stanciu (PR 18802).
Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Improve documentation of native and non-native classes (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19154)
Fix compilation when using Python 3.13 debug build (Valentin Stanciu, PR 19045)
Show the reason why a class can’t be a native class (Valentin Stanciu, PR 19016)
Support await/yield while temporary values are live (Michael J. Sullivan, PR 16305)
Fix spilling values with overlapping error values (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18961)
Fix reference count of spilled register in async def (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18957)
Add basic optimization for
sorted(Marc Mueller, PR 18902)Fix access of class object in a type annotation (Advait Dixit, PR 18874)
Optimize
list.__imul__andtuple.__mul__(Marc Mueller, PR 18887)Optimize
list.__add__,list.__iadd__andtuple.__add__(Marc Mueller, PR 18845)Add and implement primitive
list.copy()(exertustfm, PR 18771)Optimize
builtins.repr(Marc Mueller, PR 18844)Support iterating over keys/values/items of dict-bound TypeVar and ParamSpec.kwargs (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18789)
Add efficient primitives for
str.strip()etc. (Advait Dixit, PR 18742)Document that
strip()etc. are optimized (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18793)Fix mypyc crash with enum type aliases (Valentin Stanciu, PR 18725)
Optimize
str.findandstr.rfind(Marc Mueller, PR 18709)Optimize
str.__contains__(Marc Mueller, PR 18705)Fix order of steal/unborrow in tuple unpacking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18732)
Optimize
str.partitionandstr.rpartition(Marc Mueller, PR 18702)Optimize
str.startswithandstr.endswithwith tuple argument (Marc Mueller, PR 18678)Improve
str.startswithandstr.endswithwith tuple argument (Marc Mueller, PR 18703)pythoncapi_compat: don’t define Py_NULL if it is already defined (Michael R. Crusoe, PR 18699)Optimize
str.splitlines(Marc Mueller, PR 18677)Mark
dict.setdefaultas optimized (Marc Mueller, PR 18685)Support
__del__methods (Advait Dixit, PR 18519)Optimize
str.rsplit(Marc Mueller, PR 18673)Optimize
str.removeprefixandstr.removesuffix(Marc Mueller, PR 18672)Recognize literal types in
__match_args__(Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18636)Fix non extension classes with attribute annotations using forward references (Valentin Stanciu, PR 18577)
Use lower-case generic types such as
list[t]in documentation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18576)Improve support for
frozenset(Marc Mueller, PR 18571)Fix wheel build for cp313-win (Marc Mueller, PR 18560)
Reduce impact of immortality (introduced in Python 3.12) on reference counting performance (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18459)
Update math error messages for 3.14 (Marc Mueller, PR 18534)
Update math error messages for 3.14 (2) (Marc Mueller, PR 18949)
Replace deprecated
_PyLong_newwithPyLongWriterAPI (Marc Mueller, PR 18532)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Traverse module ancestors when traversing reachable graph nodes during dmypy update (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18906)
Fix crash on multiple unpacks in a bare type application (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18857)
Prevent crash when enum/TypedDict call is stored as a class attribute (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18861)
Fix crash on multiple unpacks in a bare type application (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18857)
Fix crash on type inference against non-normal callables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18858)
Fix crash on decorated getter in settable property (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18787)
Fix crash on callable with
*argsand suffix against Any (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18781)Fix crash on deferred supertype and setter override (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18649)
Fix crashes on incorrectly detected recursive aliases (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18625)
Report that
NamedTupleanddataclassare incompatile instead of crashing (Christoph Tyralla, PR 18633)Fix mypy daemon crash (Valentin Stanciu, PR 19087)
Performance Improvements¶
These are specific to mypy. Mypyc-related performance improvements are discussed elsewhere.
Documentation Updates¶
Improve documentation of
--strict(lenayoung8, PR 18903)Remove a note about
from __future__ import annotations(Ageev Maxim, PR 18915)Improve documentation on type narrowing (Tim Hoffmann, PR 18767)
Fix metaclass usage example (Georg, PR 18686)
Update documentation on
extra_checksflag (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18537)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Fix
TypeAliashandling (Alexey Makridenko, PR 18960)Handle
arg=Nonein C extension modules (Anthony Sottile, PR 18768)Fix valid type detection to allow pipe unions (Chad Dombrova, PR 18726)
Include simple decorators in stub files (Marc Mueller, PR 18489)
Support positional and keyword-only arguments in stubdoc (Paul Ganssle, PR 18762)
Fall back to
Incompleteif we are unable to determine the module name (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19084)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Make stubtest ignore
__slotnames__(Nick Pope, PR 19077)Fix stubtest tests on 3.14 (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 19074)
Support for
strict_bytesin stubtest (Joren Hammudoglu, PR 19002)Understand override (Shantanu, PR 18815)
Better checking of runtime arguments with dunder names (Shantanu, PR 18756)
Ignore setattr and delattr inherited from object (Stephen Morton, PR 18325)
Miscellaneous Fixes and Improvements¶
Add
--strict-bytesto--strict(wyattscarpenter, PR 19049)Admit that Final variables are never redefined (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19083)
Add special support for
@django.cached_propertyneeded indjango-stubs(sobolevn, PR 18959)Do not narrow types to
Neverwith binder (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18972)Local forward references should precede global forward references (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 19000)
Do not cache module lookup results in incremental mode that may become invalid (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19044)
Only consider meta variables in ambiguous “any of” constraints (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18986)
Allow accessing
__init__on final classes and when__init__is final (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 19035)Treat varargs as positional-only (A5rocks, PR 19022)
Enable colored output for argparse help in Python 3.14 (Marc Mueller, PR 19021)
Fix argparse for Python 3.14 (Marc Mueller, PR 19020)
dmypy suggestcan now suggest through contextmanager-based decorators (Anthony Sottile, PR 18948)Fix
__r<magic_methods>__being used under the same__<magic_method>__hook (Arnav Jain, PR 18995)Prioritize
.pyifrom-stubspackages over bundled.pyi(Joren Hammudoglu, PR 19001)Fix missing subtype check case for
type[T](Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18975)Fixes to the detection of redundant casts (Anthony Sottile, PR 18588)
Make some parse errors non-blocking (Shantanu, PR 18941)
Fix PEP 695 type alias with a mix of type arguments (PEP 696) (Marc Mueller, PR 18919)
Allow deeper recursion in mypy daemon, better error reporting (Carter Dodd, PR 17707)
Fix swapped errors for frozen/non-frozen dataclass inheritance (Nazrawi Demeke, PR 18918)
Fix incremental issue with namespace packages (Shantanu, PR 18907)
Exclude irrelevant members when narrowing union overlapping with enum (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18897)
Flatten union before contracting literals when checking subtyping (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18898)
Do not add
kw_onlydataclass fields to__match_args__(sobolevn, PR 18892)Fix error message when returning long tuple with type mismatch (Thomas Mattone, PR 18881)
Treat
TypedDict(old-style) aliases as regularTypedDicts (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18852)Warn about unused
type: ignorecomments when error code is disabled (Brian Schubert, PR 18849)Reject duplicate
ParamSpec.{args,kwargs}at call site (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18854)Make detection of enum members more consistent (sobolevn, PR 18675)
Admit that
**kwargsmapping subtypes may have no direct type parameters (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18850)Don’t suggest
types-setuptoolsforpkg_resources(Shantanu, PR 18840)Suggest
scipy-stubsforscipyas non-typeshed stub package (Joren Hammudoglu, PR 18832)Narrow tagged unions in match statements (Gene Parmesan Thomas, PR 18791)
Consistently store settable property type (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18774)
Do not blindly undefer on leaving function (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18674)
Process superclass methods before subclass methods in semanal (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18723)
Only defer top-level functions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18718)
Add one more type-checking pass (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18717)
Properly account for
memberandnonmemberin enums (sobolevn, PR 18559)Fix instance vs tuple subtyping edge case (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18664)
Improve handling of Any/object in variadic generics (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18643)
Fix handling of named tuples in class match pattern (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18663)
Fix regression for user config files (Shantanu, PR 18656)
Fix dmypy socket issue on GNU/Hurd (Mattias Ellert, PR 18630)
Don’t assume that for loop body index variable is always set (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18631)
Fix overlap check for variadic generics (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18638)
Improve support for
functools.partialof overloaded callable protocol (Shantanu, PR 18639)Allow lambdas in
except*clauses (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18620)Fix trailing commas in many multiline string options in
pyproject.toml(sobolevn, PR 18624)Allow trailing commas for
filessetting inmypy.iniandsetup.ini(sobolevn, PR 18621)Fix “not callable” issue for
@dataclass(frozen=True)withFinalattr (sobolevn, PR 18572)Add missing TypedDict special case when checking member access (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18604)
Use lower case
listanddictin invariance notes (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18594)Fix inference when class and instance match protocol (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18587)
Remove support for
builtins.Any(Marc Mueller, PR 18578)Update the overlapping check for tuples to account for NamedTuples (A5rocks, PR 18564)
Fix
@deprecated(PEP 702) with normal overloaded methods (Christoph Tyralla, PR 18477)Start propagating end columns/lines for
type-argerrors (A5rocks, PR 18533)Improve handling of
type(x) is Foochecks (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18486)Suggest
typing.Literalfor exit-return error messages (Marc Mueller, PR 18541)Allow redefinitions in except/else/finally (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18515)
Disallow setting Python version using inline config (Shantanu, PR 18497)
Improve type inference in tuple multiplication plugin (Shantanu, PR 18521)
Add missing line number to
yield fromwith wrong type (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18518)Hint at argument names when formatting callables with compatible return types in error messages (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18495)
Add better naming and improve compatibility for ad hoc intersections of instances (Christoph Tyralla, PR 18506)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
A5rocks
Aaron Gokaslan
Advait Dixit
Ageev Maxim
Alexey Makridenko
Ali Hamdan
Anthony Sottile
Arnav Jain
Brian Schubert
bzoracler
Carter Dodd
Chad Dombrova
Christoph Tyralla
Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos
Emma Smith
exertustfm
Gene Parmesan Thomas
Georg
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jared Hance
Jelle Zijlstra
Joren Hammudoglu
lenayoung8
Marc Mueller
Mattias Ellert
Michael J. Sullivan
Michael R. Crusoe
Nazrawi Demeke
Nick Pope
Paul Ganssle
Shantanu
sobolevn
Stanislav Terliakov
Stephen Morton
Thomas Mattone
Tim Hoffmann
Tim Ruffing
Valentin Stanciu
Wesley Collin Wright
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.15¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.15 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Performance Improvements¶
Mypy is up to 40% faster in some use cases. This improvement comes largely from tuning the performance of the garbage collector. Additionally, the release includes several micro-optimizations that may be impactful for large projects.
Contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo
Mypyc Accelerated Mypy Wheels for ARM Linux¶
For best performance, mypy can be compiled to C extension modules using mypyc. This makes
mypy 3-5x faster than when interpreted with pure Python. We now build and upload mypyc
accelerated mypy wheels for manylinux_aarch64 to PyPI, making it easy for Linux users on
ARM platforms to realise this speedup – just pip install the latest mypy.
Contributed by Christian Bundy and Marc Mueller (PR mypy_mypyc-wheels#76, PR mypy_mypyc-wheels#89).
--strict-bytes¶
By default, mypy treats bytearray and memoryview values as assignable to the bytes
type, for historical reasons. Use the --strict-bytes flag to disable this
behavior. PEP 688 specified the removal of this
special case. The flag will be enabled by default in mypy 2.0.
Contributed by Ali Hamdan (PR 18263) and Shantanu Jain (PR 13952).
Improvements to Reachability Analysis and Partial Type Handling in Loops¶
This change results in mypy better modelling control flow within loops and hence detecting several previously ignored issues. In some cases, this change may require additional explicit variable annotations.
Contributed by Christoph Tyralla (PR 18180, PR 18433).
(Speaking of partial types, remember that we plan to enable --local-partial-types
by default in mypy 2.0.)
Better Discovery of Configuration Files¶
Mypy will now walk up the filesystem (up until a repository or file system root) to discover configuration files. See the mypy configuration file documentation for more details.
Contributed by Mikhail Shiryaev and Shantanu Jain (PR 16965, PR 18482)
Better Line Numbers for Decorators and Slice Expressions¶
Mypy now uses more correct line numbers for decorators and slice expressions. In some cases,
you may have to change the location of a # type: ignore comment.
Drop Support for Python 3.8¶
Mypy no longer supports running with Python 3.8, which has reached end-of-life.
When running mypy with Python 3.9+, it is still possible to type check code
that needs to support Python 3.8 with the --python-version 3.8 argument.
Support for this will be dropped in the first half of 2025!
Contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 17492).
Mypyc Improvements¶
Fix
__init__for classes with@attr.s(slots=True)(Advait Dixit, PR 18447)Report error for nested class instead of crashing (Valentin Stanciu, PR 18460)
Fix
InitVarfor dataclasses (Advait Dixit, PR 18319)Remove unnecessary mypyc files from wheels (Marc Mueller, PR 18416)
Fix issues with relative imports (Advait Dixit, PR 18286)
Add faster primitive for some list get item operations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18136)
Fix iteration over
NamedTupleobjects (Advait Dixit, PR 18254)Mark mypyc package with
py.typed(bzoracler, PR 18253)Fix list index while checking for
Enumclass (Advait Dixit, PR 18426)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Improve dataclass init signatures (Marc Mueller, PR 18430)
Preserve
dataclass_transformdecorator (Marc Mueller, PR 18418)Fix
UnpackTypefor 3.11+ (Marc Mueller, PR 18421)Improve
selfannotations (Marc Mueller, PR 18420)Print
InspectErrortraceback in stubgenwalk_packageswhen verbose is specified (Gareth, PR 18224)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Fixes to Crashes¶
Prevent crash with
Unpackof a fixed tuple in PEP695 type alias (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18451)Fix crash with
--cache-fine-grained --cache-dir=/dev/null(Shantanu, PR 18457)Prevent crashing when
matcharms use name of existing callable (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18449)Gracefully handle encoding errors when writing to stdout (Brian Schubert, PR 18292)
Prevent crash on generic NamedTuple with unresolved typevar bound (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18585)
Documentation Updates¶
Add inline tabs to documentation (Marc Mueller, PR 18262)
Document any
TYPE_CHECKINGname works (Shantanu, PR 18443)Update documentation to not mention 3.8 where possible (sobolevn, PR 18455)
Mention
ignore_errorsin exclude documentation (Shantanu, PR 18412)Add
Selfmisuse to common issues (Shantanu, PR 18261)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix literal context for ternary expressions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18545)
Ignore
dataclass.__replace__LSP violations (Marc Mueller, PR 18464)Bind
selfto the class being defined when checking multiple inheritance (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18465)Fix attribute type resolution with multiple inheritance (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18415)
Improve security of our GitHub Actions (sobolevn, PR 18413)
Unwrap
type[Union[...]]when solving type variable constraints (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18266)Allow
Anyto match sequence patterns in match/case (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18448)Fix parent generics mapping when overriding generic attribute with property (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18441)
Add dedicated error code for explicit
Any(Shantanu, PR 18398)Reject invalid
ParamSpeclocations (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18278)Stop suggesting stubs that have been removed from typeshed (Shantanu, PR 18373)
Allow inverting
--local-partial-types(Shantanu, PR 18377)Allow to use
FinalandClassVarafter Python 3.13 (정승원, PR 18358)Update suggestions to include latest stubs in typeshed (Shantanu, PR 18366)
Fix
--install-typesmasking failure details (wyattscarpenter, PR 17485)Reject promotions when checking against protocols (Christoph Tyralla, PR 18360)
Don’t erase type object arguments in diagnostics (Shantanu, PR 18352)
Clarify status in
dmypy statusoutput (Kcornw, PR 18331)Disallow no-argument generic aliases when using PEP 613 explicit aliases (Brian Schubert, PR 18173)
Suppress errors for unreachable branches in conditional expressions (Brian Schubert, PR 18295)
Do not allow
ClassVarandFinalinTypedDictandNamedTuple(sobolevn, PR 18281)Report error if not enough or too many types provided to
TypeAliasType(bzoracler, PR 18308)Use more precise context for
TypedDictplugin errors (Brian Schubert, PR 18293)Use more precise context for invalid type argument errors (Brian Schubert, PR 18290)
Do not allow
type[]to containLiteraltypes (sobolevn, PR 18276)Allow bytearray/bytes comparisons with
--strict-bytes(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18255)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Advait Dixit
Ali Hamdan
Brian Schubert
bzoracler
Cameron Matsui
Christoph Tyralla
Gareth
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jukka Lehtosalo
Kcornw
Marc Mueller
Mikhail f. Shiryaev
Shantanu
sobolevn
Stanislav Terliakov
Stephen Morton
Valentin Stanciu
Viktor Szépe
wyattscarpenter
정승원
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.14¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.14 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Change to Enum Membership Semantics¶
As per the updated typing specification for enums, enum members must be left unannotated.
class Pet(Enum):
CAT = 1 # Member attribute
DOG = 2 # Member attribute
# New error: Enum members must be left unannotated
WOLF: int = 3
species: str # Considered a non-member attribute
In particular, the specification change can result in issues in type stubs (.pyi files), since
historically it was common to leave the value absent:
# In a type stub (.pyi file)
class Pet(Enum):
# Change in semantics: previously considered members,
# now non-member attributes
CAT: int
DOG: int
# Mypy will now issue a warning if it detects this
# situation in type stubs:
# > Detected enum "Pet" in a type stub with zero
# > members. There is a chance this is due to a recent
# > change in the semantics of enum membership. If so,
# > use `member = value` to mark an enum member,
# > instead of `member: type`
class Pet(Enum):
# As per the specification, you should now do one of
# the following:
DOG = 1 # Member attribute with value 1 and known type
WOLF = cast(int, ...) # Member attribute with unknown
# value but known type
LION = ... # Member attribute with unknown value and
# # unknown type
Contributed by Terence Honles (PR 17207) and Shantanu Jain (PR 18068).
Support for @deprecated Decorator (PEP 702)¶
Mypy can now issue errors or notes when code imports a deprecated feature
explicitly with a from mod import depr statement, or uses a deprecated feature
imported otherwise or defined locally. Features are considered deprecated when
decorated with warnings.deprecated, as specified in PEP 702.
You can enable the error code via --enable-error-code=deprecated on the mypy
command line or enable_error_code = deprecated in the mypy config file.
Use the command line flag --report-deprecated-as-note or config file option
report_deprecated_as_note=True to turn all such errors into notes.
Deprecation errors will be enabled by default in a future mypy version.
This feature was contributed by Christoph Tyralla.
List of changes:
Add basic support for PEP 702 (
@deprecated) (Christoph Tyralla, PR 17476)Support descriptors with
@deprecated(Christoph Tyralla, PR 18090)Make “deprecated” note an error, disabled by default (Valentin Stanciu, PR 18192)
Consider all possible type positions with
@deprecated(Christoph Tyralla, PR 17926)Improve the handling of explicit type annotations in assignment statements with
@deprecated(Christoph Tyralla, PR 17899)
Optionally Analyzing Untyped Modules¶
Mypy normally doesn’t analyze imports from third-party modules (installed using pip, for example)
if there are no stubs or a py.typed marker file. To force mypy to analyze these imports, you
can now use the --follow-untyped-imports flag or set the follow_untyped_imports
config file option to True. This can be set either in the global section of your mypy config
file, or individually on a per-module basis.
This feature was contributed by Jannick Kremer.
List of changes:
Support New Style Type Variable Defaults (PEP 696)¶
Mypy now supports type variable defaults using the new syntax described in PEP 696, which was introduced in Python 3.13. Example:
@dataclass
class Box[T = int]: # Set default for "T"
value: T | None = None
reveal_type(Box()) # type is Box[int], since it's the default
reveal_type(Box(value="Hello World!")) # type is Box[str]
This feature was contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 17985).
Improved For Loop Index Variable Type Narrowing¶
Mypy now preserves the literal type of for loop index variables, to support TypedDict
lookups. Example:
from typing import TypedDict
class X(TypedDict):
hourly: int
daily: int
def func(x: X) -> int:
s = 0
for var in ("hourly", "daily"):
# "Union[Literal['hourly']?, Literal['daily']?]"
reveal_type(var)
# x[var] no longer triggers a literal-required error
s += x[var]
return s
This was contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 18014).
Mypyc Improvements¶
Document optimized bytes operations and additional str operations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18242)
Add primitives and specialization for
ord()(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18240)Optimize
str.encodewith specializations for common used encodings (Valentin Stanciu, PR 18232)Fix fall back to generic operation for staticmethod and classmethod (Advait Dixit, PR 18228)
Support unicode surrogates in string literals (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18209)
Fix index variable in for loop with
builtins.enumerate(Advait Dixit, PR 18202)Fix check for enum classes (Advait Dixit, PR 18178)
Fix loading type from imported modules (Advait Dixit, PR 18158)
Fix initializers of final attributes in class body (Jared Hance, PR 18031)
Fix name generation for modules with similar full names (aatle, PR 18001)
Fix relative imports in
__init__.py(Shantanu, PR 17979)Optimize dunder methods (jairov4, PR 17934)
Replace deprecated
_PyDict_GetItemStringWithError(Marc Mueller, PR 17930)Fix wheel build for cp313-win (Marc Mueller, PR 17941)
Use public PyGen_GetCode instead of vendored implementation (Marc Mueller, PR 17931)
Optimize calls to final classes (jairov4, PR 17886)
Support ellipsis (
...) expressions in class bodies (Newbyte, PR 17923)Sync
pythoncapi_compat.h(Marc Mueller, PR 17929)Add
runtests.py mypyc-fastfor running fast mypyc tests (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17906)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Stubtest Improvements¶
Documentation Updates¶
Update config file documentation (sobolevn, PR 18103)
Improve contributor documentation for Windows (ag-tafe, PR 18097)
Correct note about
--disallow-any-genericsflag in documentation (Abel Sen, PR 18055)Further caution against
--follow-imports=skip(Shantanu, PR 18048)Fix the edit page button link in documentation (Kanishk Pachauri, PR 17933)
Other Notables Fixes and Improvements¶
Allow enum members to have type objects as values (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 19160)
Show
Protocol__call__for arguments with incompatible types (MechanicalConstruct, PR 18214)Make join and meet symmetric with
strict_optional(MechanicalConstruct, PR 18227)Preserve block unreachablility when checking function definitions with constrained TypeVars (Brian Schubert, PR 18217)
Do not include non-init fields in the synthesized
__replace__method for dataclasses (Victorien, PR 18221)Disallow
TypeVarconstraints parameterized by type variables (Brian Schubert, PR 18186)Always complain about invalid varargs and varkwargs (Shantanu, PR 18207)
Set default strict_optional state to True (Shantanu, PR 18198)
Preserve type variable default None in type alias (Sukhorosov Aleksey, PR 18197)
Add checks for invalid usage of continue/break/return in
except*block (coldwolverine, PR 18132)Do not consider bare TypeVar not overlapping with None for reachability analysis (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18138)
Special case
types.DynamicClassAttributeas property-like (Stephen Morton, PR 18150)Disallow bare
ParamSpecin type aliases (Brian Schubert, PR 18174)Move long_description metadata to pyproject.toml (Marc Mueller, PR 18172)
Support
==-based narrowing of Optional (Christoph Tyralla, PR 18163)Allow TypedDict assignment of Required item to NotRequired ReadOnly item (Brian Schubert, PR 18164)
Allow nesting of Annotated with TypedDict special forms inside TypedDicts (Brian Schubert, PR 18165)
Infer generic type arguments for slice expressions (Brian Schubert, PR 18160)
Fix checking of match sequence pattern against bounded type variables (Brian Schubert, PR 18091)
Fix incorrect truthyness for Enum types and literals (David Salvisberg, PR 17337)
Move static project metadata to pyproject.toml (Marc Mueller, PR 18146)
Fallback to stdlib json if integer exceeds 64-bit range (q0w, PR 18148)
Fix ‘or’ pattern structural matching exhaustiveness (yihong, PR 18119)
Fix type inference of positional parameter in class pattern involving builtin subtype (Brian Schubert, PR 18141)
Fix
[override]error with no line number when argument node has no line number (Brian Schubert, PR 18122)Fix some dmypy crashes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18098)
Fix subtyping between instance type and overloaded (Shantanu, PR 18102)
Clean up new_semantic_analyzer config (Shantanu, PR 18071)
Issue warning for enum with no members in stub (Shantanu, PR 18068)
Fix enum attributes are not members (Terence Honles, PR 17207)
Fix crash when checking slice expression with step 0 in tuple index (Brian Schubert, PR 18063)
Allow union-with-callable attributes to be overridden by methods (Brian Schubert, PR 18018)
Emit
[mutable-override]for covariant override of attribute with method (Brian Schubert, PR 18058)Support ParamSpec mapping with
functools.partial(Stanislav Terliakov, PR 17355)Fix approved stub ignore, remove normpath (Shantanu, PR 18045)
Make
disallow-any-unimportedflag invertible (Séamus Ó Ceanainn, PR 18030)Filter to possible package paths before trying to resolve a module (falsedrow, PR 18038)
Fix overlap check for ParamSpec types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 18040)
Do not prioritize ParamSpec signatures during overload resolution (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 18033)
Fix ternary union for literals (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 18023)
Fix compatibility checks for conditional function definitions using decorators (Brian Schubert, PR 18020)
TypeGuard should be bool not Any when matching TypeVar (Evgeniy Slobodkin, PR 17145)
Fix convert-cache tool (Shantanu, PR 17974)
Fix generator comprehension with mypyc (Shantanu, PR 17969)
Fix crash issue when using shadowfile with pretty (Max Chang, PR 17894)
Fix multiple nested classes with new generics syntax (Max Chang, PR 17820)
Better error for
mypy -p packagewithout py.typed (Joe Gordon, PR 17908)Emit error for
raise NotImplemented(Brian Schubert, PR 17890)Add
is_lvalueattribute to AttributeContext (Brian Schubert, PR 17881)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
aatle
Abel Sen
Advait Dixit
ag-tafe
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Brian Schubert
Carlton Gibson
Chad Dombrova
Chelsea Durazo
chiri
Christoph Tyralla
coldwolverine
David Salvisberg
Ekin Dursun
Evgeniy Slobodkin
falsedrow
Gaurav Giri
Ihor
Ivan Levkivskyi
jairov4
Jannick Kremer
Jared Hance
Jelle Zijlstra
jianghuyiyuan
Joe Gordon
John Doknjas
Jukka Lehtosalo
Kanishk Pachauri
Marc Mueller
Max Chang
MechanicalConstruct
Newbyte
q0w
Ruslan Sayfutdinov
Sebastian Rittau
Shantanu
sobolevn
Stanislav Terliakov
Stephen Morton
Sukhorosov Aleksey
Séamus Ó Ceanainn
Terence Honles
Valentin Stanciu
vasiliy
Victorien
yihong
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.13¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.13 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Note that unlike typical releases, Mypy 1.13 does not have any changes to type checking semantics from 1.12.1.
Improved Performance¶
Mypy 1.13 contains several performance improvements. Users can expect mypy to be 5-20% faster. In environments with long search paths (such as environments using many editable installs), mypy can be significantly faster, e.g. 2.2x faster in the use case targeted by these improvements.
Mypy 1.13 allows use of the orjson library for handling the cache instead of the stdlib json,
for improved performance. You can ensure the presence of orjson using the faster-cache extra:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy[faster-cache]
Mypy may depend on orjson by default in the future.
These improvements were contributed by Shantanu.
List of changes:
Significantly speed up file handling error paths (Shantanu, PR 17920)
Use fast path in modulefinder more often (Shantanu, PR 17950)
Let mypyc optimise os.path.join (Shantanu, PR 17949)
Make is_sub_path faster (Shantanu, PR 17962)
Speed up stubs suggestions (Shantanu, PR 17965)
Use sha1 for hashing (Shantanu, PR 17953)
Use orjson instead of json, when available (Shantanu, PR 17955)
Add faster-cache extra, test in CI (Shantanu, PR 17978)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Shantanu Jain
Jukka Lehtosalo
Mypy 1.12¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.12 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Support Python 3.12 Syntax for Generics (PEP 695)¶
Support for the new type parameter syntax introduced in Python 3.12 is now enabled by default, documented, and no longer experimental. It was available through a feature flag in mypy 1.11 as an experimental feature.
This example demonstrates the new syntax:
# Generic function
def f[T](x: T) -> T: ...
reveal_type(f(1)) # Revealed type is 'int'
# Generic class
class C[T]:
def __init__(self, x: T) -> None:
self.x = x
c = C('a')
reveal_type(c.x) # Revealed type is 'str'
# Type alias
type A[T] = C[list[T]]
For more information, refer to the documentation.
These improvements are included:
Document Python 3.12 type parameter syntax (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17816)
Further documentation updates (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17826)
Allow Self return types with contravariance (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17786)
Enable new type parameter syntax by default (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17798)
Generate error if new-style type alias used as base class (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17789)
Inherit variance if base class has explicit variance (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17787)
Fix crash on invalid type var reference (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17788)
Fix covariance of frozen dataclasses (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17783)
Allow covariance with attribute that has “
_” name prefix (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17782)Support
Annotated[...]in new-style type aliases (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17777)Fix nested generic classes (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17776)
Add detection and error reporting for the use of incorrect expressions within the scope of a type parameter and a type alias (Kirill Podoprigora, PR 17560)
Basic Support for Python 3.13¶
This release adds partial support for Python 3.13 features and compiled binaries for Python 3.13. Mypyc now also supports Python 3.13.
In particular, these features are supported:
Various new stdlib features and changes (through typeshed stub improvements)
typing.ReadOnly(see below for more)typing.TypeIs(added in mypy 1.10, PEP 742)Type parameter defaults when using the legacy syntax (PEP 696)
These features are not supported yet:
warnings.deprecated(PEP 702)Type parameter defaults when using Python 3.12 type parameter syntax
Mypyc Support for Python 3.13¶
Mypyc now supports Python 3.13. This was contributed by Marc Mueller, with additional fixes by Jukka Lehtosalo. Free threaded Python 3.13 builds are not supported yet.
List of changes:
Add additional includes for Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17506)
Add another include for Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17509)
Fix ManagedDict functions for Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17507)
Update mypyc test output for Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17508)
Fix
PyUnicodefunctions for Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17504)Fix
_PyObject_LookupAttrIdfor Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17505)Fix
_PyList_Extendfor Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17503)Fix
gen_is_coroutinefor Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17501)Fix
_PyObject_FastCallfor Python 3.13 (Marc Mueller, PR 17502)Avoid uses of
_PyObject_CallMethodOneArgon 3.13 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17526)Don’t rely on
_PyType_CalculateMetaclasson 3.13 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17525)Don’t use
_PyUnicode_FastCopyCharacterson 3.13 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17524)Don’t use
_PyUnicode_EQon 3.13, as it’s no longer exported (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17523)
Inferring Unions for Conditional Expressions¶
Mypy now always tries to infer a union type for a conditional expression if left and right operand types are different. This results in more precise inferred types and lets mypy detect more issues. Example:
s = "foo" if cond() else 1
# Type of "s" is now "str | int" (it used to be "object")
Notably, if one of the operands has type Any, the type of a conditional expression is
now <type> | Any. Previously the inferred type was just Any. The new type essentially
indicates that the value can be of type <type>, and potentially of some (unknown) type.
Most operations performed on the result must also be valid for <type>.
Example where this is relevant:
from typing import Any
def func(a: Any, b: bool) -> None:
x = a if b else None
# Type of x is "Any | None"
print(x.y) # Error: None has no attribute "y"
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 17427).
ReadOnly Support for TypedDict (PEP 705)¶
You can now use typing.ReadOnly to specity TypedDict items as
read-only (PEP 705):
from typing import TypedDict
# Or "from typing ..." on Python 3.13
from typing_extensions import ReadOnly
class TD(TypedDict):
a: int
b: ReadOnly[int]
d: TD = {"a": 1, "b": 2}
d["a"] = 3 # OK
d["b"] = 5 # Error: "b" is ReadOnly
This feature was contributed by Nikita Sobolev (PR 17644).
Python 3.8 End of Life Approaching¶
We are planning to drop support for Python 3.8 in the next mypy feature release or the one after that. Python 3.8 reaches end of life in October 2024.
Planned Changes to Defaults¶
We are planning to enable --local-partial-types by default in mypy 2.0. This will
often require at least minor code changes. This option is implicitly enabled by mypy
daemon, so this makes the behavior of daemon and non-daemon modes consistent.
We recommend that mypy users start using local partial types soon (or to explicitly disable them) to prepare for the change.
This can also be configured in a mypy configuration file:
local_partial_types = True
For more information, refer to the documentation.
Documentation Updates¶
Mypy documentation now uses modern syntax variants and imports in many examples. Some examples no longer work on Python 3.8, which is the earliest Python version that mypy supports.
Notably, Iterable and other protocols/ABCs are imported from collections.abc instead of
typing:
from collections.abc import Iterable, Callable
Examples also avoid the upper-case aliases to built-in types: list[str] is used instead
of List[str]. The X | Y union type syntax introduced in Python 3.10 is also now prevalent.
List of documentation updates:
Document
--output=jsonCLI option (Edgar Ramírez Mondragón, PR 17611)Update various references to deprecated type aliases in docs (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17829)
Make “X | Y” union syntax more prominent in documentation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17835)
Discuss upper bounds before self types in documentation (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17827)
Make changelog visible in mypy documentation (quinn-sasha, PR 17742)
List all incomplete features in
--enable-incomplete-featuredocs (sobolevn, PR 17633)Remove the explicit setting of a pygments theme (Pradyun Gedam, PR 17571)
Document ReadOnly with TypedDict (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17905)
Document TypeIs (Chelsea Durazo, PR 17821)
Experimental Inline TypedDict Syntax¶
Mypy now supports a non-standard, experimental syntax for defining anonymous TypedDicts. Example:
def func(n: str, y: int) -> {"name": str, "year": int}:
return {"name": n, "year": y}
The feature is disabled by default. Use --enable-incomplete-feature=InlineTypedDict to
enable it. We might remove this feature in a future release.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 17457).
Stubgen Improvements¶
Fix crash on literal class-level keywords (sobolevn, PR 17663)
Stubgen add
--version(sobolevn, PR 17662)Fix
stubgen --no-analysis/--parse-onlydocs (sobolevn, PR 17632)Include keyword only args when generating signatures in stubgenc (Eric Mark Martin, PR 17448)
Add support for detecting
Literaltypes when extracting types from docstrings (Michael Carlstrom, PR 17441)Use
Generatortype var defaults (Sebastian Rittau, PR 17670)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Other Notables Fixes and Improvements¶
Report error if using unsupported type parameter defaults (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17876)
Fix re-processing cross-reference in mypy daemon when node kind changes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17883)
Don’t use equality to narrow when value is IntEnum/StrEnum (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17866)
Don’t consider None vs IntEnum comparison ambiguous (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17877)
Fix narrowing of IntEnum and StrEnum types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17874)
Filter overload items based on self type during type inference (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17873)
Enable negative narrowing of union TypeVar upper bounds (Brian Schubert, PR 17850)
Fix issue with member expression formatting (Brian Schubert, PR 17848)
Avoid type size explosion when expanding types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17842)
Fix negative narrowing of tuples in match statement (Brian Schubert, PR 17817)
Narrow falsey str/bytes/int to literal type (Brian Schubert, PR 17818)
Test against latest Python 3.13, make testing 3.14 easy (Shantanu, PR 17812)
Reject ParamSpec-typed callables calls with insufficient arguments (Stanislav Terliakov, PR 17323)
Fix crash when passing too many type arguments to generic base class accepting single ParamSpec (Brian Schubert, PR 17770)
Fix TypeVar upper bounds sometimes not being displayed in pretty callables (Brian Schubert, PR 17802)
Added error code for overlapping function signatures (Katrina Connors, PR 17597)
Check for
truthy-boolinnot ...unary expressions (sobolevn, PR 17773)Add missing lines-covered and lines-valid attributes (Soubhik Kumar Mitra, PR 17738)
Fix another crash scenario with recursive tuple types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17708)
Resolve TypeVar upper bounds in
functools.partial(Shantanu, PR 17660)Always reset binder when checking deferred nodes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17643)
Fix crash on a callable attribute with single unpack (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17641)
Fix mismatched signature between checker plugin API and implementation (bzoracler, PR 17343)
Indexing a type also produces a GenericAlias (Shantanu, PR 17546)
Fix crash on self-type in callable protocol (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17499)
Fix crash on NamedTuple with method and error in function (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17498)
Add
__replace__for dataclasses in 3.13 (Max Muoto, PR 17469)Fix help message for
--no-namespace-packages(Raphael Krupinski, PR 17472)Fix typechecking for async generators (Danny Yang, PR 17452)
Fix strict optional handling in attrs plugin (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17451)
Allow mixing ParamSpec and TypeVarTuple in Generic (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17450)
Improvements to
functools.partialof types (Shantanu, PR 17898)Make ReadOnly TypedDict items covariant (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17904)
Fix union callees with
functools.partial(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17903)Improve handling of generic functions with
functools.partial(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17925)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.12.1¶
Fix crash when showing partially analyzed type in error message (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17961)
Fix iteration over union (when self type is involved) (Shantanu, PR 17976)
Fix type object with type var default in union context (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17991)
Revert change to
os.pathstubs affecting use ofos.PathLike[Any](Shantanu, PR 17995)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Ali Hamdan
Anders Kaseorg
Bénédikt Tran
Brian Schubert
bzoracler
Chelsea Durazo
Danny Yang
Edgar Ramírez Mondragón
Eric Mark Martin
InSync
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jordandev678
Katrina Connors
Kirill Podoprigora
Marc Mueller
Max Muoto
Max Murin
Michael Carlstrom
Michael I Chen
Pradyun Gedam
quinn-sasha
Raphael Krupinski
Sebastian Rittau
Shantanu
sobolevn
Soubhik Kumar Mitra
Stanislav Terliakov
wyattscarpenter
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.11¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.11 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Support Python 3.12 Syntax for Generics (PEP 695)¶
Mypy now supports the new type parameter syntax introduced in Python 3.12 (PEP 695).
This feature is still experimental and must be enabled with the --enable-incomplete-feature=NewGenericSyntax flag, or with enable_incomplete_feature = NewGenericSyntax in the mypy configuration file.
We plan to enable this by default in the next mypy feature release.
This example demonstrates the new syntax:
# Generic function
def f[T](x: T) -> T: ...
reveal_type(f(1)) # Revealed type is 'int'
# Generic class
class C[T]:
def __init__(self, x: T) -> None:
self.x = x
c = C('a')
reveal_type(c.x) # Revealed type is 'str'
# Type alias
type A[T] = C[list[T]]
This feature was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo.
Support for functools.partial¶
Mypy now type checks uses of functools.partial. Previously mypy would accept arbitrary arguments.
This example will now produce an error:
from functools import partial
def f(a: int, b: str) -> None: ...
g = partial(f, 1)
# Argument has incompatible type "int"; expected "str"
g(11)
This feature was contributed by Shantanu (PR 16939).
Stricter Checks for Untyped Overrides¶
Past mypy versions didn’t check if untyped methods were compatible with overridden methods. This would result in false negatives. Now mypy performs these checks when using --check-untyped-defs.
For example, this now generates an error if using --check-untyped-defs:
class Base:
def f(self, x: int = 0) -> None: ...
class Derived(Base):
# Signature incompatible with "Base"
def f(self): ...
This feature was contributed by Steven Troxler (PR 17276).
Type Inference Improvements¶
The new polymorphic inference algorithm introduced in mypy 1.5 is now used in more situations. This improves type inference involving generic higher-order functions, in particular.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 17348).
Mypy now uses unions of tuple item types in certain contexts to enable more precise inferred types. Example:
for x in (1, 'x'):
# Previously inferred as 'object'
reveal_type(x) # Revealed type is 'int | str'
This was also contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 17408).
Improvements to Detection of Overlapping Overloads¶
The details of how mypy checks if two @overload signatures are unsafely overlapping were overhauled. This both fixes some false positives, and allows mypy to detect additional unsafe signatures.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 17392).
Better Support for Type Hints in Expressions¶
Mypy now allows more expressions that evaluate to valid type annotations in all expression contexts. The inferred types of these expressions are also sometimes more precise. Previously they were often object.
This example uses a union type that includes a callable type as an expression, and it no longer generates an error:
from typing import Callable
print(Callable[[], int] | None) # No error
This feature was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo (PR 17404).
Mypyc Improvements¶
Mypyc now supports the new syntax for generics introduced in Python 3.12 (see above). Another notable improvement is significantly faster basic operations on int values.
Support Python 3.12 syntax for generic functions and classes (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17357)
Support Python 3.12 type alias syntax (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17384)
Fix ParamSpec (Shantanu, PR 17309)
Inline fast paths of integer unboxing operations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17266)
Inline tagged integer arithmetic and bitwise operations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17265)
Allow specifying primitives as pure (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17263)
Changes to Stubtest¶
Changes to Stubgen¶
Miscellaneous New Features¶
Add error format support and JSON output option via
--output json(Tushar Sadhwani, PR 11396)Support
enum.memberin Python 3.11+ (Nikita Sobolev, PR 17382)Support
enum.nonmemberin Python 3.11+ (Nikita Sobolev, PR 17376)Support
namedtuple.__replace__in Python 3.13 (Shantanu, PR 17259)Support
rename=Truein collections.namedtuple (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 17247)Add support for
__spec__(Shantanu, PR 14739)
Changes to Error Reporting¶
Mention
--enable-incomplete-feature=NewGenericSyntaxin messages (Shantanu, PR 17462)Do not report plugin-generated methods with
explicit-override(sobolevn, PR 17433)Use and display namespaces for function type variables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17311)
Fix false positive for Final local scope variable in Protocol (GiorgosPapoutsakis, PR 17308)
Use Never in more messages, use ambiguous in join (Shantanu, PR 17304)
Log full path to config file in verbose output (dexterkennedy, PR 17180)
Added
[prop-decorator]code for unsupported property decorators (#14461) (Christopher Barber, PR 16571)Suppress second error message with
:=and[truthy-bool](Nikita Sobolev, PR 15941)Generate error for assignment of functional Enum to variable of different name (Shantanu, PR 16805)
Fix error reporting on cached run after uninstallation of third party library (Shantanu, PR 17420)
Fixes for Crashes¶
Fix daemon crash on invalid type in TypedDict (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17495)
Fix crash and bugs related to
partial()(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17423)Fix crash when overriding with unpacked TypedDict (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17359)
Fix crash on TypedDict unpacking for ParamSpec (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17358)
Fix crash involving recursive union of tuples (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17353)
Fix crash on invalid callable property override (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17352)
Fix crash on unpacking self in NamedTuple (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17351)
Fix crash on recursive alias with an optional type (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17350)
Fix crash on type comment inside generic definitions (Bénédikt Tran, PR 16849)
Changes to Documentation¶
Use inline config in documentation for optional error codes (Shantanu, PR 17374)
Use lower-case generics in documentation (Seo Sanghyeon, PR 17176)
Add documentation for show-error-code-links (GiorgosPapoutsakis, PR 17144)
Update CONTRIBUTING.md to include commands for Windows (GiorgosPapoutsakis, PR 17142)
Other Notable Improvements and Fixes¶
Fix ParamSpec inference against TypeVarTuple (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17431)
Fix explicit type for
partial(Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17424)Always allow lambda calls (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17430)
Fix isinstance checks with PEP 604 unions containing None (Shantanu, PR 17415)
Fix self-referential upper bound in new-style type variables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17407)
Consider overlap between instances and callables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17389)
Allow new-style self-types in classmethods (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17381)
Fix isinstance with type aliases to PEP 604 unions (Shantanu, PR 17371)
Properly handle unpacks in overlap checks (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17356)
Fix type application for classes with generic constructors (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 17354)
Update
typing_extensionsto >=4.6.0 to fix Python 3.12 error (Ben Brown, PR 17312)Avoid “does not return” error in lambda (Shantanu, PR 17294)
Fix bug with descriptors in non-strict-optional mode (Max Murin, PR 17293)
Don’t leak unreachability from lambda body to surrounding scope (Anders Kaseorg, PR 17287)
Fix issues with non-ASCII characters on Windows (Alexander Leopold Shon, PR 17275)
Fix for type narrowing of negative integer literals (gilesgc, PR 17256)
Fix confusion between .py and .pyi files in mypy daemon (Valentin Stanciu, PR 17245)
Fix type of
tuple[X, Y]expression (urnest, PR 17235)Don’t forget that a
TypedDictwas wrapped inUnpackafter aname-definederror occurred (Christoph Tyralla, PR 17226)Mark annotated argument as having an explicit, not inferred type (bzoracler, PR 17217)
Don’t consider Enum private attributes as enum members (Ali Hamdan, PR 17182)
Fix Literal strings containing pipe characters (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 17148)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.11.1¶
Mypy 1.11.2¶
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Alexander Leopold Shon
Ali Hamdan
Anders Kaseorg
Ben Brown
Bénédikt Tran
bzoracler
Christoph Tyralla
Christopher Barber
dexterkennedy
gilesgc
GiorgosPapoutsakis
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jelle Zijlstra
Jukka Lehtosalo
Marc Mueller
Matthieu Devlin
Michael R. Crusoe
Nikita Sobolev
Seo Sanghyeon
Shantanu
sobolevn
Steven Troxler
Tadeu Manoel
Tamir Duberstein
Tushar Sadhwani
urnest
Valentin Stanciu
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.10¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.10 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Support TypeIs (PEP 742)¶
Mypy now supports TypeIs (PEP 742), which allows
functions to narrow the type of a value, similar to isinstance(). Unlike TypeGuard,
TypeIs can narrow in both the if and else branches of an if statement:
from typing_extensions import TypeIs
def is_str(s: object) -> TypeIs[str]:
return isinstance(s, str)
def f(o: str | int) -> None:
if is_str(o):
# Type of o is 'str'
...
else:
# Type of o is 'int'
...
TypeIs will be added to the typing module in Python 3.13, but it
can be used on earlier Python versions by importing it from
typing_extensions.
This feature was contributed by Jelle Zijlstra (PR 16898).
Support TypeVar Defaults (PEP 696)¶
PEP 696 adds support for type parameter defaults. Example:
from typing import Generic
from typing_extensions import TypeVar
T = TypeVar("T", default=int)
class C(Generic[T]):
...
x: C = ...
y: C[str] = ...
reveal_type(x) # C[int], because of the default
reveal_type(y) # C[str]
TypeVar defaults will be added to the typing module in Python 3.13, but they
can be used with earlier Python releases by importing TypeVar from
typing_extensions.
This feature was contributed by Marc Mueller (PR 16878 and PR 16925).
Support TypeAliasType (PEP 695)¶
As part of the initial steps towards implementing PEP 695, mypy now supports TypeAliasType.
TypeAliasType provides a backport of the new type statement in Python 3.12.
type ListOrSet[T] = list[T] | set[T]
is equivalent to:
T = TypeVar("T")
ListOrSet = TypeAliasType("ListOrSet", list[T] | set[T], type_params=(T,))
Example of use in mypy:
from typing_extensions import TypeAliasType, TypeVar
NewUnionType = TypeAliasType("NewUnionType", int | str)
x: NewUnionType = 42
y: NewUnionType = 'a'
z: NewUnionType = object() # error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "object", variable has type "int | str") [assignment]
T = TypeVar("T")
ListOrSet = TypeAliasType("ListOrSet", list[T] | set[T], type_params=(T,))
a: ListOrSet[int] = [1, 2]
b: ListOrSet[str] = {'a', 'b'}
c: ListOrSet[str] = 'test' # error: Incompatible types in assignment (expression has type "str", variable has type "list[str] | set[str]") [assignment]
TypeAliasType was added to the typing module in Python 3.12, but it can be used with earlier Python releases by importing from typing_extensions.
This feature was contributed by Ali Hamdan (PR 16926, PR 17038 and PR 17053)
Detect Additional Unsafe Uses of super()¶
Mypy will reject unsafe uses of super() more consistently, when the target has a
trivial (empty) body. Example:
class Proto(Protocol):
def method(self) -> int: ...
class Sub(Proto):
def method(self) -> int:
return super().meth() # Error (unsafe)
This feature was contributed by Shantanu (PR 16756).
Stubgen Improvements¶
Mypyc Improvements¶
Provide an easier way to define IR-to-IR transforms (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16998)
Implement lowering pass and add primitives for int (in)equality (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17027)
Implement lowering for remaining tagged integer comparisons (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17040)
Optimize away some bool/bit registers (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17022)
Remangle redefined names produced by async with (Richard Si, PR 16408)
Optimize TYPE_CHECKING to False at Runtime (Srinivas Lade, PR 16263)
Fix compilation of unreachable comprehensions (Richard Si, PR 15721)
Don’t crash on non-inlinable final local reads (Richard Si, PR 15719)
Documentation Improvements¶
Error Reporting Improvements¶
Use lower-case generics more consistently in error messages (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 17035)
Other Notable Changes and Fixes¶
Fix incorrect inferred type when accessing descriptor on union type (Matthieu Devlin, PR 16604)
Fix crash when expanding invalid
Unpackin aCallablealias (Ali Hamdan, PR 17028)Fix false positive when string formatting with string enum (roberfi, PR 16555)
Narrow individual items when matching a tuple to a sequence pattern (Loïc Simon, PR 16905)
Fix false positive from type variable within TypeGuard or TypeIs (Evgeniy Slobodkin, PR 17071)
Improve
yield frominference for unions of generators (Shantanu, PR 16717)Fix emulating hash method logic in
attrsclasses (Hashem, PR 17016)Add reverted typeshed commit that uses
ParamSpecforfunctools.wraps(Tamir Duberstein, PR 16942)Fix type narrowing for
types.EllipsisType(Shantanu, PR 17003)Fix single item enum match type exhaustion (Oskari Lehto, PR 16966)
Improve type inference with empty collections (Marc Mueller, PR 16994)
Fix override checking for decorated property (Shantanu, PR 16856)
Fix narrowing on match with function subject (Edward Paget, PR 16503)
Allow
+NwithinLiteral[...](Spencer Brown, PR 16910)Experimental: Support TypedDict within
type[...](Marc Mueller, PR 16963)Experimtental: Fix issue with TypedDict with optional keys in
type[...](Marc Mueller, PR 17068)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Mypy 1.10.1¶
Fix error reporting on cached run after uninstallation of third party library (Shantanu, PR 17420)
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Edward Paget
Evgeniy Slobodkin
Hashem
hesam
Hugo van Kemenade
Ihor
James Braza
Jelle Zijlstra
jhance
Jukka Lehtosalo
Loïc Simon
Marc Mueller
Matthieu Devlin
Michael R. Crusoe
Nikita Sobolev
Oskari Lehto
Riccardo Di Maio
Richard Si
roberfi
Roman Solomatin
Sam Xifaras
Shantanu
Spencer Brown
Srinivas Lade
Tamir Duberstein
youkaichao
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.9¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.9 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Breaking Changes¶
Because the version of typeshed we use in mypy 1.9 doesn’t support 3.7, neither does mypy 1.9. (Jared Hance, PR 16883)
We are planning to enable
local partial types (enabled via the
--local-partial-types flag) later this year by default. This change
was announced years ago, but now it’s finally happening. This is a
major backward-incompatible change, so we’ll probably include it as
part of the upcoming mypy 2.0 release. This makes daemon and
non-daemon mypy runs have the same behavior by default.
Local partial types can also be enabled in the mypy config file:
local_partial_types = True
We are looking at providing a tool to make it easier to migrate
projects to use --local-partial-types, but it’s not yet clear whether
this is practical. The migration usually involves adding some
explicit type annotations to module-level and class-level variables.
Basic Support for Type Parameter Defaults (PEP 696)¶
This release contains new experimental support for type parameter defaults (PEP 696). Please try it out! This feature was contributed by Marc Mueller.
Since this feature will be officially introduced in the next Python
feature release (3.13), you will need to import TypeVar, ParamSpec
or TypeVarTuple from typing_extensions to use defaults for now.
This example adapted from the PEP defines a default for BotT:
from typing import Generic
from typing_extensions import TypeVar
class Bot: ...
BotT = TypeVar("BotT", bound=Bot, default=Bot)
class Context(Generic[BotT]):
bot: BotT
class MyBot(Bot): ...
# type is Bot (the default)
reveal_type(Context().bot)
# type is MyBot
reveal_type(Context[MyBot]().bot)
Type-checking Improvements¶
Fix missing type store for overloads (Marc Mueller, PR 16803)
Fix
'WriteToConn' object has no attribute 'flush'(Charlie Denton, PR 16801)Improve TypeAlias error messages (Marc Mueller, PR 16831)
Support narrowing unions that include
type[None](Christoph Tyralla, PR 16315)Support TypedDict functional syntax as class base type (anniel-stripe, PR 16703)
Accept multiline quoted annotations (Shantanu, PR 16765)
Allow unary + in
Literal(Jelle Zijlstra, PR 16729)Substitute type variables in return type of static methods (Kouroche Bouchiat, PR 16670)
Consider TypeVarTuple to be invariant (Marc Mueller, PR 16759)
Add
aliassupport tofield()inattrsplugin (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16610)Improve attrs hashability detection (Tin Tvrtković, PR 16556)
Performance Improvements¶
Speed up finding function type variables (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16562)
Documentation Updates¶
Document supported values for
--enable-incomplete-featurein “mypy –help” (Froger David, PR 16661)Update new type system discussion links (thomaswhaley, PR 16841)
Add missing class instantiation to cheat sheet (Aleksi Tarvainen, PR 16817)
Document how evil
--no-strict-optionalis (Shantanu, PR 16731)Improve mypy daemon documentation note about local partial types (Makonnen Makonnen, PR 16782)
Fix numbering error (Stefanie Molin, PR 16838)
Various documentation improvements (Shantanu, PR 16836)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Ignore private function/method parameters when they are missing from the stub (private parameter names start with a single underscore and have a default) (PR 16507)
Ignore a new protocol dunder (Alex Waygood, PR 16895)
Private parameters can be omitted (Sebastian Rittau, PR 16507)
Add support for setting enum members to “…” (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 16807)
Adjust symbol table logic (Shantanu, PR 16823)
Fix posisitional-only handling in overload resolution (Shantanu, PR 16750)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Aleksi Tarvainen
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
anniel-stripe
Charlie Denton
Christoph Tyralla
Dheeraj
Fabian Keller
Fabian Lewis
Froger David
Ihor
Jared Hance
Jelle Zijlstra
Jukka Lehtosalo
Kouroche Bouchiat
Lukas Geiger
Maarten Huijsmans
Makonnen Makonnen
Marc Mueller
Nikita Sobolev
Sebastian Rittau
Shantanu
Stefanie Molin
Stephen Morton
thomaswhaley
Tin Tvrtković
WeilerMarcel
Wesley Collin Wright
zipperer
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Mypy 1.8¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.8 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Type-checking Improvements¶
Do not intersect types in isinstance checks if at least one is final (Christoph Tyralla, PR 16330)
Detect that
@finalclass without__bool__cannot have falsey instances (Ilya Priven, PR 16566)Do not allow
TypedDictclasses with extra keywords (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16438)Do not allow class-level keywords for
NamedTuple(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16526)Make imprecise constraints handling more robust (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16502)
Fix strict-optional in extending generic TypedDict (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16398)
Allow type ignores of PEP 695 constructs (Shantanu, PR 16608)
Enable
type_check_onlysupport forTypedDictandNamedTuple(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16469)
Performance Improvements¶
Add fast path to analyzing special form assignments (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16561)
Improvements to Error Reporting¶
Stubgen Improvements¶
Stubtest Improvements¶
Improve handling of unrepresentable defaults (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 16433)
Print more helpful errors if a function is missing from stub (Alex Waygood, PR 16517)
Support
@type_check_onlydecorator (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16422)Warn about missing
__del__(Shantanu, PR 16456)Fix crashes with some uses of
finalanddeprecated(Shantanu, PR 16457)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Documentation Updates¶
Other Notable Changes and Fixes¶
Allow mypy to output a junit file with per-file results (Matthew Wright, PR 16388)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Chad Dombrova
Christoph Tyralla
Ilya Priven
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jelle Zijlstra
Jukka Lehtosalo
Marcel Telka
Matthew Wright
Michael R. Crusoe
Nikita Sobolev
Ole Peder Brandtzæg
robjhornby
Shantanu
Sveinung Gundersen
Valentin Stanciu
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Posted by Wesley Collin Wright
Mypy 1.7¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.7 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Using TypedDict for **kwargs Typing¶
Mypy now has support for using Unpack[...] with a TypedDict type to annotate **kwargs arguments enabled by default. Example:
# Or 'from typing_extensions import ...'
from typing import TypedDict, Unpack
class Person(TypedDict):
name: str
age: int
def foo(**kwargs: Unpack[Person]) -> None:
...
foo(name="x", age=1) # Ok
foo(name=1) # Error
The definition of foo above is equivalent to the one below, with keyword-only arguments name and age:
def foo(*, name: str, age: int) -> None:
...
Refer to PEP 692 for more information. Note that unlike in the current version of the PEP, mypy always treats signatures with Unpack[SomeTypedDict] as equivalent to their expanded forms with explicit keyword arguments, and there aren’t special type checking rules for TypedDict arguments.
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi back in 2022 (PR 13471).
TypeVarTuple Support Enabled (Experimental)¶
Mypy now has support for variadic generics (TypeVarTuple) enabled by default, as an experimental feature. Refer to PEP 646 for the details.
TypeVarTuple was implemented by Jared Hance and Ivan Levkivskyi over several mypy releases, with help from Jukka Lehtosalo.
Changes included in this release:
Fix handling of tuple type context with unpacks (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16444)
Handle TypeVarTuples when checking overload constraints (robjhornby, PR 16428)
Enable Unpack/TypeVarTuple support (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16354)
Fix crash on unpack call special-casing (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16381)
Some final touches for variadic types support (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16334)
Support PEP-646 and PEP-692 in the same callable (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16294)
Support new
*syntax for variadic types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16242)Correctly handle variadic instances with empty arguments (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16238)
Correctly handle runtime type applications of variadic types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16240)
Support variadic tuple packing/unpacking (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16205)
Better support for variadic calls and indexing (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16131)
Subtyping and inference of user-defined variadic types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16076)
Complete type analysis of variadic types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15991)
New Way of Installing Mypyc Dependencies¶
If you want to install package dependencies needed by mypyc (not just mypy), you should now install mypy[mypyc] instead of just mypy:
python3 -m pip install -U 'mypy[mypyc]'
Mypy has many more users than mypyc, so always installing mypyc dependencies would often bring unnecessary dependencies.
This change was contributed by Shantanu (PR 16229).
New Rules for Re-exports¶
Mypy no longer considers an import such as import a.b as b as an explicit re-export. The old behavior was arguably inconsistent and surprising. This may impact some stub packages, such as older versions of types-six. You can change the import to from a import b as b, if treating the import as a re-export was intentional.
This change was contributed by Anders Kaseorg (PR 14086).
Improved Type Inference¶
The new type inference algorithm that was recently introduced to mypy (but was not enabled by default) is now enabled by default. It improves type inference of calls to generic callables where an argument is also a generic callable, in particular. You can use --old-type-inference to disable the new behavior.
The new algorithm can (rarely) produce different error messages, different error codes, or errors reported on different lines. This is more likely in cases where generic types were used incorrectly.
The new type inference algorithm was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi. PR 16345 enabled it by default.
Narrowing Tuple Types Using len()¶
Mypy now can narrow tuple types using len() checks. Example:
def f(t: tuple[int, int] | tuple[int, int, int]) -> None:
if len(t) == 2:
a, b = t # Ok
...
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 16237).
More Precise Tuple Lengths (Experimental)¶
Mypy supports experimental, more precise checking of tuple type lengths through --enable-incomplete-feature=PreciseTupleTypes. Refer to the documentation for more information.
More generally, we are planning to use --enable-incomplete-feature to introduce experimental features that would benefit from community feedback.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 16237).
Mypy Changelog¶
We now maintain a changelog in the mypy Git repository. It mirrors the contents of mypy release blog posts. We will continue to also publish release blog posts. In the future, release blog posts will be created based on the changelog near a release date.
This was contributed by Shantanu (PR 16280).
Mypy Daemon Improvements¶
Fix daemon crash caused by deleted submodule (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16370)
Fix file reloading in dmypy with –export-types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16359)
Fix dmypy inspect on Windows (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16355)
Fix dmypy inspect for namespace packages (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16357)
Fix return type change to optional in generic function (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16342)
Fix daemon false positives related to module-level
__getattr__(Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16292)Fix daemon crash related to ABCs (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16275)
Stream dmypy output instead of dumping everything at the end (Valentin Stanciu, PR 16252)
Make sure all dmypy errors are shown (Valentin Stanciu, PR 16250)
Mypyc Improvements¶
Generate error on duplicate function definitions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16309)
Don’t crash on unreachable statements (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16311)
Avoid cyclic reference in nested functions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16268)
Fix direct
__dict__access on inner functions in new Python (Shantanu, PR 16084)Make tuple packing and unpacking more efficient (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 16022)
Improvements to Error Reporting¶
Update starred expression error message to match CPython (Cibin Mathew, PR 16304)
Fix error code of “Maybe you forgot to use await” note (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 16203)
Use error code
[unsafe-overload]for unsafe overloads, instead of[misc](Randolf Scholz, PR 16061)Reword the error message related to void functions (Albert Tugushev, PR 15876)
Represent bottom type as Never in messages (Shantanu, PR 15996)
Add hint for AsyncIterator incompatible return type (Ilya Priven, PR 15883)
Don’t suggest stubs packages where the runtime package now ships with types (Alex Waygood, PR 16226)
Performance Improvements¶
Attrs and Dataclass Improvements¶
dataclass.replace: Allow transformed classes (Ilya Priven, PR 15915)dataclass.replace: Fall through to typeshed signature (Ilya Priven, PR 15962)Document
dataclass_transformbehavior (Ilya Priven, PR 16017)attrs: Remove fields type check (Ilya Priven, PR 15983)attrs,dataclasses: Don’t enforce slots when base class doesn’t (Ilya Priven, PR 15976)Fix crash on dataclass field / property collision (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16147)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Write stubs with utf-8 encoding (Jørgen Lind, PR 16329)
Fix missing property setter in semantic analysis mode (Ali Hamdan, PR 16303)
Unify C extension and pure python stub generators with object oriented design (Chad Dombrova, PR 15770)
Multiple fixes to the generated imports (Ali Hamdan, PR 15624)
Generate valid dataclass stubs (Ali Hamdan, PR 15625)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fix incremental mode crash on TypedDict in method (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16364)
Fix crash on star unpack in TypedDict (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16116)
Fix crash on malformed TypedDict in incremental mode (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16115)
Fix crash with report generation on namespace packages (Shantanu, PR 16019)
Fix crash when parsing error code config with typo (Shantanu, PR 16005)
Fix
__post_init__()internal error (Ilya Priven, PR 16080)
Documentation Updates¶
Make it easier to copy commands from README (Hamir Mahal, PR 16133)
Document and rename
[overload-overlap]error code (Shantanu, PR 16074)Document
--force-uppercase-builtinsand--force-union-syntax(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16049)Document
force_union_syntaxandforce_uppercase_builtins(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16048)Document we’re not tracking relationships between symbols (Ilya Priven, PR 16018)
Other Notable Changes and Fixes¶
Propagate narrowed types to lambda expressions (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16407)
Avoid importing from
setuptools._distutils(Shantanu, PR 16348)Delete recursive aliases flags (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16346)
Properly use proper subtyping for callables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16343)
Use upper bound as inference fallback more consistently (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16344)
Add
[unimported-reveal]error code (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16271)Add
|=and|operators support forTypedDict(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16249)Clarify variance convention for Parameters (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16302)
Correctly recognize
typing_extensions.NewType(Ganden Schaffner, PR 16298)Fix partially defined in the case of missing type maps (Shantanu, PR 15995)
Use SPDX license identifier (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16230)
Make
__qualname__and__module__available in class bodies (Anthony Sottile, PR 16215)stubtest: Hint when args in stub need to be keyword-only (Alex Waygood, PR 16210)
Tuple slice should not propagate fallback (Thomas Grainger, PR 16154)
Fix cases of type object handling for overloads (Shantanu, PR 16168)
Fix walrus interaction with empty collections (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16197)
Use type variable bound when it appears as actual during inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16178)
Use upper bounds as fallback solutions for inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16184)
Special-case type inference of empty collections (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16122)
Allow TypedDict unpacking in Callable types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 16083)
Fix inference for overloaded
__call__with generic self (Shantanu, PR 16053)Call dynamic class hook on generic classes (Petter Friberg, PR 16052)
Preserve implicitly exported types via attribute access (Shantanu, PR 16129)
Fix a stubtest bug (Alex Waygood)
Fix
tuple[Any, ...]subtyping (Shantanu, PR 16108)Lenient handling of trivial Callable suffixes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15913)
Add
add_overloaded_method_to_classhelper for plugins (Nikita Sobolev, PR 16038)Bundle
misc/proper_plugin.pyas a part ofmypy(Nikita Sobolev, PR 16036)Fix
case Any()in match statement (DS/Charlie, PR 14479)Make iterable logic more consistent (Shantanu, PR 16006)
Fix inference for properties with
__call__(Shantanu, PR 15926)
Typeshed Updates¶
Please see git log for full list of standard library typeshed stub changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Albert Tugushev
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Anders Kaseorg
Anthony Sottile
Chad Dombrova
Cibin Mathew
dinaldoap
DS/Charlie
Eli Schwartz
Ganden Schaffner
Hamir Mahal
Ihor
Ikko Eltociear Ashimine
Ilya Priven
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jelle Zijlstra
Jukka Lehtosalo
Jørgen Lind
KotlinIsland
Matt Bogosian
Nikita Sobolev
Petter Friberg
Randolf Scholz
Shantanu
Thomas Grainger
Valentin Stanciu
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Posted by Jukka Lehtosalo
Mypy 1.6¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.6 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Introduce Error Subcodes for Import Errors¶
Mypy now uses the error code import-untyped if an import targets an installed library that doesn’t support static type checking, and no stub files are available. Other invalid imports produce the import-not-found error code. They both are subcodes of the import error code, which was previously used for both kinds of import-related errors.
Use –disable-error-code=import-untyped to only ignore import errors about installed libraries without stubs. This way mypy will still report errors about typos in import statements, for example.
If you use –warn-unused-ignore or –strict, mypy will complain if you use # type: ignore[import] to ignore an import error. You are expected to use one of the more specific error codes instead. Otherwise, ignoring the import error code continues to silence both errors.
This feature was contributed by Shantanu (PR 15840, PR 14740).
Remove Support for Targeting Python 3.6 and Earlier¶
Running mypy with –python-version 3.6, for example, is no longer supported. Python 3.6 hasn’t been properly supported by mypy for some time now, and this makes it explicit. This was contributed by Nikita Sobolev (PR 15668).
Selective Filtering of –disallow-untyped-calls Targets¶
Using –disallow-untyped-calls could be annoying when using libraries with missing type information, as mypy would generate many errors about code that uses the library. Now you can use –untyped-calls-exclude=acme, for example, to disable these errors about calls targeting functions defined in the acme package. Refer to the documentation for more information.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15845).
Improved Type Inference between Callable Types¶
Mypy now does a better job inferring type variables inside arguments of callable types. For example, this code fragment now type checks correctly:
def f(c: Callable[[T, S], None]) -> Callable[[str, T, S], None]: ...
def g(*x: int) -> None: ...
reveal_type(f(g)) # Callable[[str, int, int], None]
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15910).
Don’t Consider None and TypeVar to Overlap in Overloads¶
Mypy now doesn’t consider an overload item with an argument type None to overlap with a type variable:
@overload
def f(x: None) -> None: ..
@overload
def f(x: T) -> Foo[T]: ...
...
Previously mypy would generate an error about the definition of f above. This is slightly unsafe if the upper bound of T is object, since the value of the type variable could be None. We relaxed the rules a little, since this solves a common issue.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15846).
Improvements to –new-type-inference¶
The experimental new type inference algorithm (polymorphic inference) introduced as an opt-in feature in mypy 1.5 has several improvements:
Improve transitive closure computation during constraint solving (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15754)
Add support for upper bounds and values with –new-type-inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15813)
Basic support for variadic types with –new-type-inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15879)
Polymorphic inference: support for parameter specifications and lambdas (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15837)
Invalidate cache when adding –new-type-inference (Marc Mueller, PR 16059)
Note: We are planning to enable –new-type-inference by default in mypy 1.7. Please try this out and let us know if you encounter any issues.
ParamSpec Improvements¶
Support self-types containing ParamSpec (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15903)
Allow “…” in Concatenate, and clean up ParamSpec literals (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15905)
Fix ParamSpec inference for callback protocols (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15986)
Infer ParamSpec constraint from arguments (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15896)
Fix crash on invalid type variable with ParamSpec (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15953)
Fix subtyping between ParamSpecs (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15892)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Stubtest Improvements¶
Fix __mypy-replace false positives (Alex Waygood, PR 15689)
Fix edge case for bytes enum subclasses (Alex Waygood, PR 15943)
Generate error if typeshed is missing modules from the stdlib (Alex Waygood, PR 15729)
Fixes to new check for missing stdlib modules (Alex Waygood, PR 15960)
Fix stubtest enum.Flag edge case (Alex Waygood, PR 15933)
Documentation Improvements¶
Other Notable Changes and Fixes¶
Make unsupported PEP 695 features (introduced in Python 3.12) give a reasonable error message (Shantanu, PR 16013)
Remove the –py2 command-line argument (Marc Mueller, PR 15670)
Change empty tuple from tuple[] to tuple[()] in error messages (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15783)
Fix assert_type failures when some nodes are deferred (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15920)
Generate error on unbound TypeVar with values (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15732)
Fix over-eager types-google-cloud-ndb suggestion (Shantanu, PR 15347)
Fix type narrowing of == None and in (None,) conditions (Marti Raudsepp, PR 15760)
Fix inference for attrs.fields (Shantanu, PR 15688)
Make “await in non-async function” a non-blocking error and give it an error code (Gregory Santosa, PR 15384)
Add basic support for decorated overloads (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15898)
Fix TypeVar regression with self types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15945)
Add __match_args__ to dataclasses with no fields (Ali Hamdan, PR 15749)
Include stdout and stderr in dmypy verbose output (Valentin Stanciu, PR 15881)
Improve match narrowing and reachability analysis (Shantanu, PR 15882)
Support __bool__ with Literal in –warn-unreachable (Jannic Warken, PR 15645)
Fix inheriting from generic @frozen attrs class (Ilya Priven, PR 15700)
Correctly narrow types for tuple[type[X], …] (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15691)
Don’t flag intentionally empty generators unreachable (Ilya Priven, PR 15722)
Add tox.ini to mypy sdist (Marcel Telka, PR 15853)
Fix mypyc regression with pretty (Shantanu, PR 16124)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to Max Murin, who did most of the release manager work for this release (I just did the final steps).
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Albert Tugushev
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
chylek
EXPLOSION
Gregory Santosa
Ilya Priven
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jannic Warken
KotlinIsland
Marc Mueller
Marcel Johannesmann
Marcel Telka
Mark Byrne
Marti Raudsepp
Max Murin
Nikita Sobolev
Shantanu
Valentin Stanciu
Posted by Jukka Lehtosalo
Mypy 1.5¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.5 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, deprecations and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Drop Support for Python 3.7¶
Mypy no longer supports running with Python 3.7, which has reached end-of-life. This was contributed by Shantanu (PR 15566).
Optional Check to Require Explicit @override¶
If you enable the explicit-override error code, mypy will generate an error if a method override doesn’t use the @typing.override decorator (as discussed in PEP 698). This way mypy will detect accidentally introduced overrides. Example:
# mypy: enable-error-code="explicit-override"
from typing_extensions import override
class C:
def foo(self) -> None: pass
def bar(self) -> None: pass
class D(C):
# Error: Method "foo" is not using @override but is
# overriding a method
def foo(self) -> None:
...
@override
def bar(self) -> None: # OK
...
You can enable the error code via –enable-error-code=explicit-override on the mypy command line or enable_error_code = explicit-override in the mypy config file.
The override decorator will be available in typing in Python 3.12, but you can also use the backport from a recent version of typing_extensions on all supported Python versions.
This feature was contributed by Marc Mueller(PR 15512).
More Flexible TypedDict Creation and Update¶
Mypy was previously overly strict when type checking TypedDict creation and update operations. Though these checks were often technically correct, they sometimes triggered for apparently valid code. These checks have now been relaxed by default. You can enable stricter checking by using the new –extra-checks flag.
Construction using the ** syntax is now more flexible:
from typing import TypedDict
class A(TypedDict):
foo: int
bar: int
class B(TypedDict):
foo: int
a: A = {"foo": 1, "bar": 2}
b: B = {"foo": 3}
a2: A = { **a, **b} # OK (previously an error)
You can also call update() with a TypedDict argument that contains a subset of the keys in the updated TypedDict:
a.update(b) # OK (previously an error)
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15425).
Deprecated Flag: –strict-concatenate¶
The behavior of –strict-concatenate is now included in the new –extra-checks flag, and the old flag is deprecated.
Optionally Show Links to Error Code Documentation¶
If you use –show-error-code-links, mypy will add documentation links to (many) reported errors. The links are not shown for error messages that are sufficiently obvious, and they are shown once per error code only.
Example output:
a.py:1: error: Need type annotation for "foo" (hint: "x: List[<type>] = ...") [var-annotated]
a.py:1: note: See https://mypy.rtfd.io/en/stable/_refs.html#code-var-annotated for more info
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15449).
Consistently Avoid Type Checking Unreachable Code¶
If a module top level has unreachable code, mypy won’t type check the unreachable statements. This is consistent with how functions behave. The behavior of –warn-unreachable is also more consistent now.
This was contributed by Ilya Priven (PR 15386).
Experimental Improved Type Inference for Generic Functions¶
You can use –new-type-inference to opt into an experimental new type inference algorithm. It fixes issues when calling a generic functions with an argument that is also a generic function, in particular. This current implementation is still incomplete, but we encourage trying it out and reporting bugs if you encounter regressions. We are planning to enable the new algorithm by default in a future mypy release.
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 15287).
Partial Support for Python 3.12¶
Mypy and mypyc now support running on recent Python 3.12 development versions. Not all new Python 3.12 features are supported, and we don’t ship compiled wheels for Python 3.12 yet.
Fix ast warnings for Python 3.12 (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15558)
mypyc: Fix multiple inheritance with a protocol on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15572)
mypyc: Fix self-compilation on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15582)
mypyc: Fix 3.12 issue with pickling of instances with __dict__ (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15574)
mypyc: Fix i16 on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15510)
mypyc: Fix int operations on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15470)
mypyc: Fix generators on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15472)
mypyc: Fix classes with __dict__ on 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15471)
mypyc: Fix coroutines on Python 3.12 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15469)
mypyc: Don’t use _PyErr_ChainExceptions on 3.12, since it’s deprecated (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15468)
mypyc: Add Python 3.12 feature macro (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15465)
Improvements to Dataclasses¶
Improve signature of dataclasses.replace (Ilya Priven, PR 14849)
Fix dataclass/protocol crash on joining types (Ilya Priven, PR 15629)
Fix strict optional handling in dataclasses (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15571)
Support optional types for custom dataclass descriptors (Marc Mueller, PR 15628)
Add
__slots__attribute to dataclasses (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15649)Support better __post_init__ method signature for dataclasses (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15503)
Mypyc Improvements¶
Support unsigned 8-bit native integer type: mypy_extensions.u8 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15564)
Support signed 16-bit native integer type: mypy_extensions.i16 (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15464)
Define mypy_extensions.i16 in stubs (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15562)
Document more unsupported features and update supported features (Richard Si, PR 15524)
Fix final NamedTuple classes (Richard Si, PR 15513)
Use C99 compound literals for undefined tuple values (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15453)
Don’t explicitly assign NULL values in setup functions (Logan Hunt, PR 15379)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Documentation Updates¶
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Constant fold additional unary and binary expressions (Richard Si, PR 15202)
Exclude the same special attributes from Protocol as CPython (Kyle Benesch, PR 15490)
Change the default value of the slots argument of attrs.define to True, to match runtime behavior (Ilya Priven, PR 15642)
Fix type of class attribute if attribute is defined in both class and metaclass (Alex Waygood, PR 14988)
Handle type the same as typing.Type in the first argument of classmethods (Erik Kemperman, PR 15297)
Fix –find-occurrences flag (Shantanu, PR 15528)
Fix error location for class patterns (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15506)
Fix re-added file with errors in mypy daemon (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15440)
Fix dmypy run on Windows (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15429)
Fix abstract and non-abstract variant error for property deleter (Shantanu, PR 15395)
Remove special casing for “cannot” in error messages (Ilya Priven, PR 15428)
Add runtime
__slots__attribute to attrs classes (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15651)Add get_expression_type to CheckerPluginInterface (Ilya Priven, PR 15369)
Remove parameters that no longer exist from NamedTuple._make() (Alex Waygood, PR 15578)
Allow using typing.Self in
__all__with an explicit @staticmethod decorator (Erik Kemperman, PR 15353)Fix self types in subclass methods without Self annotation (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15541)
Check for abstract class objects in tuples (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15366)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Adel Atallah
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Erik Kemperman
Federico Padua
Ilya Priven
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jelle Zijlstra
Jared Hance
Jukka Lehtosalo
Kyle Benesch
Logan Hunt
Marc Mueller
Nikita Sobolev
Richard Si
Shantanu
Stavros Ntentos
Valentin Stanciu
Posted by Valentin Stanciu
Mypy 1.4¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.4 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
The Override Decorator¶
Mypy can now ensure that when renaming a method, overrides are also renamed. You can explicitly mark a method as overriding a base class method by using the @typing.override decorator (PEP 698). If the method is then renamed in the base class while the method override is not, mypy will generate an error. The decorator will be available in typing in Python 3.12, but you can also use the backport from a recent version of typing_extensions on all supported Python versions.
This feature was contributed byThomas M Kehrenberg (PR 14609).
Propagating Type Narrowing to Nested Functions¶
Previously, type narrowing was not propagated to nested functions because it would not be sound if the narrowed variable changed between the definition of the nested function and the call site. Mypy will now propagate the narrowed type if the variable is not assigned to after the definition of the nested function:
def outer(x: str | None = None) -> None:
if x is None:
x = calculate_default()
reveal_type(x) # "str" (narrowed)
def nested() -> None:
reveal_type(x) # Now "str" (used to be "str | None")
nested()
This may generate some new errors because asserts that were previously necessary may become tautological or no-ops.
This was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo (PR 15133).
Narrowing Enum Values Using “==”¶
Mypy now allows narrowing enum types using the == operator. Previously this was only supported when using the is operator. This makes exhaustiveness checking with enum types more usable, as the requirement to use the is operator was not very intuitive. In this example mypy can detect that the developer forgot to handle the value MyEnum.C in example
from enum import Enum
class MyEnum(Enum):
A = 0
B = 1
C = 2
def example(e: MyEnum) -> str: # Error: Missing return statement
if e == MyEnum.A:
return 'x'
elif e == MyEnum.B:
return 'y'
Adding an extra elif case resolves the error:
...
def example(e: MyEnum) -> str: # No error -- all values covered
if e == MyEnum.A:
return 'x'
elif e == MyEnum.B:
return 'y'
elif e == MyEnum.C:
return 'z'
This change can cause false positives in test cases that have assert statements like assert o.x == SomeEnum.X when using –strict-equality. Example:
# mypy: strict-equality
from enum import Enum
class MyEnum(Enum):
A = 0
B = 1
class C:
x: MyEnum
...
def test_something() -> None:
c = C(...)
assert c.x == MyEnum.A
c.do_something_that_changes_x()
assert c.x == MyEnum.B # Error: Non-overlapping equality check
These errors can be ignored using # type: ignore[comparison-overlap], or you can perform the assertion using a temporary variable as a workaround:
...
def test_something() -> None:
...
x = c.x
assert x == MyEnum.A # Does not narrow c.x
c.do_something_that_changes_x()
x = c.x
assert x == MyEnum.B # OK
This feature was contributed by Shantanu (PR 11521).
Performance Improvements¶
Improvements to Plugins¶
attrs.evolve: Support generics and unions (Ilya Konstantinov, PR 15050)
Fix ctypes plugin (Alex Waygood)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fix a crash when function-scope recursive alias appears as upper bound (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15159)
Fix crash on follow_imports_for_stubs (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15407)
Fix stubtest crash in explicit init subclass (Shantanu, PR 15399)
Fix crash when indexing TypedDict with empty key (Shantanu, PR 15392)
Fix crash on NamedTuple as attribute (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15404)
Correctly track loop depth for nested functions/classes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15403)
Fix crash on joins with recursive tuples (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15402)
Fix crash with custom ErrorCode subclasses (Marc Mueller, PR 15327)
Fix crash in dataclass protocol with self attribute assignment (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15157)
Fix crash on lambda in generic context with generic method in body (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15155)
Fix recursive type alias crash in make_simplified_union (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15216)
Improvements to Error Messages¶
Use lower-case built-in collection types such as list[…] instead of List[…] in errors when targeting Python 3.9+ (Max Murin, PR 15070)
Use X | Y union syntax in error messages when targeting Python 3.10+ (Omar Silva, PR 15102)
Use type instead of Type in errors when targeting Python 3.9+ (Rohit Sanjay, PR 15139)
Do not show unused-ignore errors in unreachable code, and make it a real error code (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15164)
Don’t limit the number of errors shown by default (Rohit Sanjay, PR 15138)
Improver message for truthy functions (madt2709, PR 15193)
Output distinct types when type names are ambiguous (teresa0605, PR 15184)
Update message about invalid exception type in try (AJ Rasmussen, PR 15131)
Add explanation if argument type is incompatible because of an unsupported numbers type (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15137)
Add more detail to ‘signature incompatible with supertype’ messages for non-callables (Ilya Priven, PR 15263)
Documentation Updates¶
Add –local-partial-types note to dmypy docs (Alan Du, PR 15259)
Update getting started docs for mypyc for Windows (Valentin Stanciu, PR 15233)
Clarify usage of callables regarding type object in docs (Viicos, PR 15079)
Clarify difference between disallow_untyped_defs and disallow_incomplete_defs (Ilya Priven, PR 15247)
Use attrs and @attrs.define in documentation and tests (Ilya Priven, PR 15152)
Mypyc Improvements¶
Changes to Stubgen¶
Do not remove Generic from base classes (Ali Hamdan, PR 15316)
Support yield from statements (Ali Hamdan, PR 15271)
Fix missing total from TypedDict class (Ali Hamdan, PR 15208)
Fix call-based namedtuple omitted from class bases (Ali Hamdan, PR 14680)
Support TypedDict alternative syntax (Ali Hamdan, PR 14682)
Make stubgen respect MYPY_CACHE_DIR (Henrik Bäärnhielm, PR 14722)
Fixes and simplifications (Ali Hamdan, PR 15232)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix nested async functions when using TypeVar value restriction (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14705)
Always allow returning Any from lambda (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15413)
Add foundation for TypeVar defaults (PEP 696) (Marc Mueller, PR 14872)
Update semantic analyzer for TypeVar defaults (PEP 696) (Marc Mueller, PR 14873)
Make dict expression inference more consistent (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 15174)
Do not block on duplicate base classes (Nikita Sobolev, PR 15367)
Generate an error when both staticmethod and classmethod decorators are used (Juhi Chandalia, PR 15118)
Fix assert_type behaviour with literals (Carl Karsten, PR 15123)
Fix match subject ignoring redefinitions (Vincent Vanlaer, PR 15306)
Support
__all__.remove (Shantanu, PR 15279)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Adrian Garcia Badaracco
AJ Rasmussen
Alan Du
Alex Waygood
Ali Hamdan
Carl Karsten
dosisod
Ethan Smith
Gregory Santosa
Heather White
Henrik Bäärnhielm
Ilya Konstantinov
Ilya Priven
Ivan Levkivskyi
Juhi Chandalia
Jukka Lehtosalo
Logan Hunt
madt2709
Marc Mueller
Max Murin
Nikita Sobolev
Omar Silva
Özgür
Richard Si
Rohit Sanjay
Shantanu
teresa0605
Thomas M Kehrenberg
Tin Tvrtković
Tushar Sadhwani
Valentin Stanciu
Viicos
Vincent Vanlaer
Wesley Collin Wright
William Santosa
yaegassy
I’d also like to thank my employer, Dropbox, for supporting mypy development.
Posted by Jared Hance
Mypy 1.3¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.3 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Performance Improvements¶
Stub Tooling Improvements¶
Stubtest: Check that the stub is abstract if the runtime is, even when the stub is an overloaded method (Alex Waygood, PR 14955)
Stubtest: Verify stub methods or properties are decorated with @final if they are decorated with @final at runtime (Alex Waygood, PR 14951)
Stubtest: Fix stubtest false positives with TypedDicts at runtime (Alex Waygood, PR 14984)
Stubgen: Support @functools.cached_property (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14981)
Improvements to stubgenc (Chad Dombrova, PR 14564)
Improvements to attrs¶
Documentation Updates¶
Improve async documentation (Shantanu, PR 14973)
Improvements to cheat sheet (Shantanu, PR 14972)
Add documentation for bytes formatting error code (Shantanu, PR 14971)
Convert insecure links to use HTTPS (Marti Raudsepp, PR 14974)
Also mention overloads in async iterator documentation (Shantanu, PR 14998)
stubtest: Improve allowlist documentation (Shantanu, PR 15008)
Clarify “Using types… but not at runtime” (Jon Shea, PR 15029)
Fix alignment of cheat sheet example (Ondřej Cvacho, PR 15039)
Fix error for callback protocol matching against callable type object (Shantanu, PR 15042)
Error Reporting Improvements¶
Improve bytes formatting error (Shantanu, PR 14959)
Mypyc Improvements¶
Fix unions of bools and ints (Tomer Chachamu, PR 15066)
Other Fixes and Improvements¶
Fix narrowing union types that include Self with isinstance (Christoph Tyralla, PR 14923)
Allow objects matching SupportsKeysAndGetItem to be unpacked (Bryan Forbes, PR 14990)
Check type guard validity for staticmethods (EXPLOSION, PR 14953)
Fix sys.platform when cross-compiling with emscripten (Ethan Smith, PR 14888)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Amin Alaee
Bryan Forbes
Chad Dombrova
Charlie Denton
Christoph Tyralla
dosisod
Ethan Smith
EXPLOSION
Ilya Konstantinov
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jon Shea
Jukka Lehtosalo
KotlinIsland
Marti Raudsepp
Nikita Sobolev
Ondřej Cvacho
Shantanu
sobolevn
Tomer Chachamu
Yaroslav Halchenko
Posted by Wesley Collin Wright.
Mypy 1.2¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.2 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Improvements to Dataclass Transforms¶
Support implicit default for “init” parameter in field specifiers (Wesley Collin Wright and Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15010)
Support descriptors in dataclass transform (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 15006)
Fix frozen_default in incremental mode (Wesley Collin Wright)
Fix frozen behavior for base classes with direct metaclasses (Wesley Collin Wright, PR 14878)
Mypyc: Native Floats¶
Mypyc now uses a native, unboxed representation for values of type float. Previously these were heap-allocated Python objects. Native floats are faster and use less memory. Code that uses floating-point operations heavily can be several times faster when using native floats.
Various float operations and math functions also now have optimized implementations. Refer to the documentation for a full list.
This can change the behavior of existing code that uses subclasses of float. When assigning an instance of a subclass of float to a variable with the float type, it gets implicitly converted to a float instance when compiled:
from lib import MyFloat # MyFloat ia a subclass of "float"
def example() -> None:
x = MyFloat(1.5)
y: float = x # Implicit conversion from MyFloat to float
print(type(y)) # float, not MyFloat
Previously, implicit conversions were applied to int subclasses but not float subclasses.
Also, int values can no longer be assigned to a variable with type float in compiled code, since these types now have incompatible representations. An explicit conversion is required:
def example(n: int) -> None:
a: float = 1 # Error: cannot assign "int" to "float"
b: float = 1.0 # OK
c: float = n # Error
d: float = float(n) # OK
This restriction only applies to assignments, since they could otherwise narrow down the type of a variable from float to int. int values can still be implicitly converted to float when passed as arguments to functions that expect float values.
Note that mypyc still doesn’t support arrays of unboxed float values. Using list[float] involves heap-allocated float objects, since list can only store boxed values. Support for efficient floating point arrays is one of the next major planned mypyc features.
Related changes:
Mypyc: Native Integers¶
Mypyc now supports signed 32-bit and 64-bit integer types in addition to the arbitrary-precision int type. You can use the types mypy_extensions.i32 and mypy_extensions.i64 to speed up code that uses integer operations heavily.
Simple example:
from mypy_extensions import i64
def inc(x: i64) -> i64:
return x + 1
Refer to the documentation for more information. This feature was contributed by Jukka Lehtosalo.
Other Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Fixes to Crashes¶
Documentation Updates¶
Error Reporting Improvements¶
Other Fixes and Improvements¶
Multiple inheritance considers callable objects as subtypes of functions (Christoph Tyralla, PR 14855)
stubtest: Respect @final runtime decorator and enforce it in stubs (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14922)
Fix false positives related to type[
] (sterliakov, PR 14756) Fix duplication of ParamSpec prefixes and properly substitute ParamSpecs (EXPLOSION, PR 14677)
Fix line number if
__iter__is incorrectly reported as missing (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14893)Fix incompatible overrides of overloaded generics with self types (Shantanu, PR 14882)
Allow SupportsIndex in slice expressions (Shantanu, PR 14738)
Support if statements in bodies of dataclasses and classes that use dataclass_transform (Jacek Chałupka, PR 14854)
Allow iterable class objects to be unpacked (including enums) (Alex Waygood, PR 14827)
Fix narrowing for walrus expressions used in match statements (Shantanu, PR 14844)
Add signature for attr.evolve (Ilya Konstantinov, PR 14526)
Fix Any inference when unpacking iterators that don’t directly inherit from typing.Iterator (Alex Waygood, PR 14821)
Fix unpack with overloaded
__iter__method (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14817)Reduce size of JSON data in mypy cache (dosisod, PR 14808)
Improve “used before definition” checks when a local definition has the same name as a global definition (Stas Ilinskiy, PR 14517)
Honor NoReturn as __setitem__ return type to mark unreachable code (sterliakov, PR 12572)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Avasam
Christoph Tyralla
dosisod
EXPLOSION
Ilya Konstantinov
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jacek Chałupka
Jelle Zijlstra
Jukka Lehtosalo
Marc Mueller
Max Murin
Nikita Sobolev
Richard Si
Shantanu
Stas Ilinskiy
sterliakov
Wesley Collin Wright
Posted by Jukka Lehtosalo
Mypy 1.1.1¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.1.1 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
Support for `dataclass_transform``¶
This release adds full support for the dataclass_transform decorator defined in PEP 681. This allows decorators, base classes, and metaclasses that generate a __init__ method or other methods based on the properties of that class (similar to dataclasses) to have those methods recognized by mypy.
This was contributed by Wesley Collin Wright.
Dedicated Error Code for Method Assignments¶
Mypy can’t safely check all assignments to methods (a form of monkey patching), so mypy generates an error by default. To make it easier to ignore this error, mypy now uses the new error code method-assign for this. By disabling this error code in a file or globally, mypy will no longer complain about assignments to methods if the signatures are compatible.
Mypy also supports the old error code assignment for these assignments to prevent a backward compatibility break. More generally, we can use this mechanism in the future if we wish to split or rename another existing error code without causing backward compatibility issues.
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 14570).
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fixes to Cache Corruption¶
Fix generic TypedDict/NamedTuple caching (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14675)
Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Raise “non-trait base must be first…” error less frequently (Richard Si, PR 14468)
Generate faster code for bool comparisons and arithmetic (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14489)
Optimize __(a)enter__/__(a)exit__ for native classes (Jared Hance, PR 14530)
Detect if attribute definition conflicts with base class/trait (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14535)
Support __(r)divmod__ dunders (Richard Si, PR 14613)
Support __pow__, __rpow__, and __ipow__ dunders (Richard Si, PR 14616)
Fix crash on star unpacking to underscore (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14624)
Fix iterating over a union of dicts (Richard Si, PR 14713)
Fixes to Detecting Undefined Names (used-before-def)¶
Stubgen Improvements¶
Stubgen is a tool for automatically generating draft stubs for libraries.
Stubtest Improvements¶
Stubtest is a tool for testing that stubs conform to the implementations.
Changes to Error Reporting and Messages¶
Add new TypedDict error code typeddict-unknown-key (JoaquimEsteves, PR 14225)
Give arguments a more reasonable location in error messages (Max Murin, PR 14562)
In error messages, quote just the module’s name (Ilya Konstantinov, PR 14567)
Improve misleading message about Enum() (Rodrigo Silva, PR 14590)
Suggest importing from
typing_extensionsif definition is not in typing (Shantanu, PR 14591)Consistently use type-abstract error code (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14619)
Consistently use literal-required error code for TypedDicts (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14621)
Adjust inconsistent dataclasses plugin error messages (Wesley Collin Wright, PR 14637)
Consolidate literal bool argument error messages (Wesley Collin Wright, PR 14693)
Other Fixes and Improvements¶
Check that type guards accept a positional argument (EXPLOSION, PR 14238)
Fix bug with in operator used with a union of Container and Iterable (Max Murin, PR 14384)
Support protocol inference for type[T] via metaclass (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14554)
Allow overlapping comparisons between bytes-like types (Shantanu, PR 14658)
Fix mypy daemon documentation link in README (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14644)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alex Waygood
Avasam
Chad Dombrova
dosisod
EXPLOSION
hamdanal
Ilya Konstantinov
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jared Hance
JoaquimEsteves
Jukka Lehtosalo
Marc Mueller
Max Murin
Michael Lee
Michael R. Crusoe
Richard Si
Rodrigo Silva
Shantanu
Stas Ilinskiy
Wesley Collin Wright
Yilei “Dolee” Yang
Yurii Karabas
We’d also like to thank our employer, Dropbox, for funding the mypy core team.
Posted by Max Murin
Mypy 1.0¶
We’ve just uploaded mypy 1.0 to the Python Package Index (PyPI). Mypy is a static type checker for Python. This release includes new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. You can install it as follows:
python3 -m pip install -U mypy
You can read the full documentation for this release on Read the Docs.
New Release Versioning Scheme¶
Now that mypy reached 1.0, we’ll switch to a new versioning scheme. Mypy version numbers will be of form x.y.z.
Rules:
The major release number (x) is incremented if a feature release includes a significant backward incompatible change that affects a significant fraction of users.
The minor release number (y) is incremented on each feature release. Minor releases include updated stdlib stubs from typeshed.
The point release number (z) is incremented when there are fixes only.
Mypy doesn’t use SemVer, since most minor releases have at least minor backward incompatible changes in typeshed, at the very least. Also, many type checking features find new legitimate issues in code. These are not considered backward incompatible changes, unless the number of new errors is very high.
Any significant backward incompatible change must be announced in the blog post for the previous feature release, before making the change. The previous release must also provide a flag to explicitly enable or disable the new behavior (whenever practical), so that users will be able to prepare for the changes and report issues. We should keep the feature flag for at least a few releases after we’ve switched the default.
See ”Release Process” in the mypy wiki for more details and for the most up-to-date version of the versioning scheme.
Performance Improvements¶
Mypy 1.0 is up to 40% faster than mypy 0.991 when type checking the Dropbox internal codebase. We also set up a daily job to measure the performance of the most recent development version of mypy to make it easier to track changes in performance.
Many optimizations contributed to this improvement:
Improve performance for errors on class with many attributes (Shantanu, PR 14379)
Speed up make_simplified_union (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14370)
Micro-optimize get_proper_type(s) (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14369)
Micro-optimize flatten_nested_unions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14368)
Some semantic analyzer micro-optimizations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14367)
A few miscellaneous micro-optimizations (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14366)
Optimization: Avoid a few uses of contextmanagers in semantic analyzer (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14360)
Optimization: Enable always defined attributes in Type subclasses (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14356)
Optimization: Remove expensive context manager in type analyzer (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14357)
subtypes: fast path for Union/Union subtype check (Hugues, PR 14277)
Micro-optimization: avoid Bogus[int] types that cause needless boxing (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14354)
Avoid slow error message logic if errors not shown to user (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14336)
Speed up the implementation of hasattr() checks (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14333)
Avoid the use of a context manager in hot code path (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14331)
Change various type queries into faster bool type queries (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14330)
Speed up recursive type check (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14326)
Optimize subtype checking by avoiding a nested function (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14325)
Optimize type parameter checks in subtype checking (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14324)
Speed up freshening type variables (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14323)
Optimize implementation of TypedDict types for **kwds (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14316)
Warn About Variables Used Before Definition¶
Mypy will now generate an error if you use a variable before it’s defined. This feature is enabled by default. By default mypy reports an error when it infers that a variable is always undefined.
y = x # E: Name "x" is used before definition [used-before-def]
x = 0
This feature was contributed by Stas Ilinskiy.
Detect Possibly Undefined Variables (Experimental)¶
A new experimental possibly-undefined error code is now available that will detect variables that may be undefined:
if b:
x = 0
print(x) # Error: Name "x" may be undefined [possibly-undefined]
The error code is disabled be default, since it can generate false positives.
This feature was contributed by Stas Ilinskiy.
Support the “Self” Type¶
There is now a simpler syntax for declaring generic self types introduced in PEP 673: the Self type. You no longer have to define a type variable to use “self types”, and you can use them with attributes. Example from mypy documentation:
from typing import Self
class Friend:
other: Self | None = None
@classmethod
def make_pair(cls) -> tuple[Self, Self]:
a, b = cls(), cls()
a.other = b
b.other = a
return a, b
class SuperFriend(Friend):
pass
# a and b have the inferred type "SuperFriend", not "Friend"
a, b = SuperFriend.make_pair()
The feature was introduced in Python 3.11. In earlier Python versions a backport of Self is available in typing_extensions.
This was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 14041).
Support ParamSpec in Type Aliases¶
ParamSpec and Concatenate can now be used in type aliases. Example:
from typing import ParamSpec, Callable
P = ParamSpec("P")
A = Callable[P, None]
def f(c: A[int, str]) -> None:
c(1, "x")
This feature was contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi (PR 14159).
ParamSpec and Generic Self Types No Longer Experimental¶
Support for ParamSpec (PEP 612) and generic self types are no longer considered experimental.
Miscellaneous New Features¶
Minimal, partial implementation of dataclass_transform (PEP 681) (Wesley Collin Wright, PR 14523)
Add basic support for
typing_extensions.TypeVar (Marc Mueller, PR 14313)Add –debug-serialize option (Marc Mueller, PR 14155)
Constant fold initializers of final variables (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14283)
Enable Final instance attributes for attrs (Tin Tvrtković, PR 14232)
Allow function arguments as base classes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14135)
Allow super() with mixin protocols (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14082)
Add type inference for dict.keys membership (Matthew Hughes, PR 13372)
Generate error for class attribute access if attribute is defined with
__slots__(Harrison McCarty, PR 14125)Support additional attributes in callback protocols (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14084)
Fixes to Crashes¶
Fix crash on prefixed ParamSpec with forward reference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14569)
Fix internal crash when resolving the same partial type twice (Shantanu, PR 14552)
Fix crash in daemon mode on new import cycle (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14508)
Fix crash in mypy daemon (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14497)
Fix crash on Any metaclass in incremental mode (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14495)
Fix crash in await inside comprehension outside function (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14486)
Fix crash in Self type on forward reference in upper bound (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14206)
Fix a crash when incorrect super() is used outside a method (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14208)
Fix crash on overriding with frozen attrs (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14186)
Fix incremental mode crash on generic function appearing in nested position (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14148)
Fix daemon crash on malformed NamedTuple (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14119)
Fix crash during ParamSpec inference (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14118)
Fix crash on nested generic callable (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14093)
Fix crashes with unpacking SyntaxError (Shantanu, PR 11499)
Fix crash on partial type inference within a lambda (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14087)
Fix crash with enums (Michael Lee, PR 14021)
Fix crash with malformed TypedDicts and disllow-any-expr (Michael Lee, PR 13963)
Error Reporting Improvements¶
Mypyc: Support Match Statement¶
Mypyc can now compile Python 3.10 match statements.
This was contributed by dosisod (PR 13953).
Other Mypyc Fixes and Improvements¶
Optimize int(x)/float(x)/complex(x) on instances of native classes (Richard Si, PR 14450)
Always emit warnings (Richard Si, PR 14451)
Faster bool and integer conversions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14422)
Support attributes that override properties (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14377)
Precompute set literals for “in” operations and iteration (Richard Si, PR 14409)
Don’t load targets with forward references while setting up non-extension class
__all__(Richard Si, PR 14401)Compile away NewType type calls (Richard Si, PR 14398)
Improve error message for multiple inheritance (Joshua Bronson, PR 14344)
Simplify union types (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14363)
Fixes to union simplification (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14364)
Fix for typeshed changes to Collection (Shantanu, PR 13994)
Allow use of enum.Enum (Shantanu, PR 13995)
Fix compiling on Arch Linux (dosisod, PR 13978)
Documentation Improvements¶
Various documentation and error message tweaks (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14574)
Improve Generics documentation (Shantanu, PR 14587)
Improve protocols documentation (Shantanu, PR 14577)
Improve dynamic typing documentation (Shantanu, PR 14576)
Improve the Common Issues page (Shantanu, PR 14581)
Add a top-level TypedDict page (Shantanu, PR 14584)
More improvements to getting started documentation (Shantanu, PR 14572)
Move truthy-function documentation from “optional checks” to “enabled by default” (Anders Kaseorg, PR 14380)
Avoid use of implicit optional in decorator factory documentation (Tom Schraitle, PR 14156)
Clarify documentation surrounding install-types (Shantanu, PR 14003)
Improve searchability for module level type ignore errors (Shantanu, PR 14342)
Advertise mypy daemon in README (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14248)
Add link to error codes in README (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14249)
Document that report generation disables cache (Ilya Konstantinov, PR 14402)
Stop saying mypy is beta software (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14251)
Flycheck-mypy is deprecated, since its functionality was merged to Flycheck (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14247)
Update code example in “Declaring decorators” (ChristianWitzler, PR 14131)
Stubtest Improvements¶
Stubtest is a tool for testing that stubs conform to the implementations.
Improve error message for
__all__-related errors (Alex Waygood, PR 14362)Improve heuristics for determining whether global-namespace names are imported (Alex Waygood, PR 14270)
Catch BaseException on module imports (Shantanu, PR 14284)
Associate exported symbol error with
__all__object_path (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14217)Add __warningregistry__ to the list of ignored module dunders (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14218)
If a default is present in the stub, check that it is correct (Jelle Zijlstra, PR 14085)
Stubgen Improvements¶
Stubgen is a tool for automatically generating draft stubs for libraries.
Treat dlls as C modules (Shantanu, PR 14503)
Other Notable Fixes and Improvements¶
Update stub suggestions based on recent typeshed changes (Alex Waygood, PR 14265)
Fix attrs protocol check with cache (Marc Mueller, PR 14558)
Fix strict equality check if operand item type has custom __eq__ (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14513)
Don’t consider object always truthy (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14510)
Properly support union of TypedDicts as dict literal context (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14505)
Properly expand type in generic class with Self and TypeVar with values (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14491)
Fix recursive TypedDicts/NamedTuples defined with call syntax (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14488)
Fix type inference issue when a class inherits from Any (Shantanu, PR 14404)
Fix false positive on generic base class with six (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14478)
Don’t read scripts without extensions as modules in namespace mode (Tim Geypens, PR 14335)
Fix inference for constrained type variables within unions (Christoph Tyralla, PR 14396)
Fix Unpack imported from typing (Marc Mueller, PR 14378)
Allow trailing commas in ini configuration of multiline values (Nikita Sobolev, PR 14240)
Fix false negatives involving Unions and generators or coroutines (Shantanu, PR 14224)
Fix ParamSpec constraint for types as callable (Vincent Vanlaer, PR 14153)
Fix type aliases with fixed-length tuples (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14184)
Fix issues with type aliases and new style unions (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14181)
Simplify unions less aggressively (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14178)
Simplify callable overlap logic (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14174)
Try empty context when assigning to union typed variables (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14151)
Improvements to recursive types (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14147)
Make non-numeric non-empty FORCE_COLOR truthy (Shantanu, PR 14140)
Fix to recursive type aliases (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14136)
Correctly handle Enum name on Python 3.11 (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14133)
Fix class objects falling back to metaclass for callback protocol (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14121)
Correctly support self types in callable ClassVar (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14115)
Fix type variable clash in nested positions and in attributes (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14095)
Allow class variable as implementation for read only attribute (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14081)
Prevent warnings from causing dmypy to fail (Andrzej Bartosiński, PR 14102)
Correctly process nested definitions in mypy daemon (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14104)
Don’t consider a branch unreachable if there is a possible promotion (Ivan Levkivskyi, PR 14077)
Fix incompatible overrides of overloaded methods in concrete subclasses (Shantanu, PR 14017)
Fix new style union syntax in type aliases (Jukka Lehtosalo, PR 14008)
Fix and optimise overload compatibility checking (Shantanu, PR 14018)
Improve handling of redefinitions through imports (Shantanu, PR 13969)
Preserve (some) implicitly exported types (Shantanu, PR 13967)
Typeshed Updates¶
Typeshed is now modular and distributed as separate PyPI packages for everything except the standard library stubs. Please see git log for full list of typeshed changes.
Acknowledgements¶
Thanks to all mypy contributors who contributed to this release:
Alessio Izzo
Alex Waygood
Anders Kaseorg
Andrzej Bartosiński
Avasam
ChristianWitzler
Christoph Tyralla
dosisod
Harrison McCarty
Hugo van Kemenade
Hugues
Ilya Konstantinov
Ivan Levkivskyi
Jelle Zijlstra
jhance
johnthagen
Jonathan Daniel
Joshua Bronson
Jukka Lehtosalo
KotlinIsland
Lakshay Bisht
Lefteris Karapetsas
Marc Mueller
Matthew Hughes
Michael Lee
Nick Drozd
Nikita Sobolev
Richard Si
Shantanu
Stas Ilinskiy
Tim Geypens
Tin Tvrtković
Tom Schraitle
Valentin Stanciu
Vincent Vanlaer
We’d also like to thank our employer, Dropbox, for funding the mypy core team.
Posted by Stas Ilinskiy
Previous releases¶
For information about previous releases, refer to the posts at https://mypy-lang.blogspot.com/