[PyQt] Type stubs erroneous

[Florian Bruhin]

* Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> [2016-09-12 17:34:04 +0100]:
> On 12 Sep 2016, at 5:21 pm, Sebastian Messmer <heinzisoft at web.de> wrote:
> > 
> > I tried using the PyQt5 type stubs, but they're throwing a lot of errors.
> > Will there be valid type hints or type stubs provided in a future release?
> > 
> > This issue currently forces me to use '--silent-imports' in mypy, which disables a lot of checks I'd like to have.
> > 
> > I found https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2016-May/037534.html , but it didn't seem to be resolved there.
> 
> As I said in the reply to that email, I don't think is possible to
> create stub files for PyQt that are "valid". Personally I think that
> is a fault with PEP 484. If stub files are more trouble than they
> are worth then I will happily drop them.
> 
> What I want is somebody who knows the subject (which rules me out)
> to look at the issue in detail and suggest changes to make stub
> files useful.

I don't really know much more either, but I tried to make the stub
files useful with mypy:

https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/compare/c47ee07...mypy

This makes them less "correct" in some ways, but more useful for me.
Note that's highly work-in-progress and not polished at all though.

Unfortunately I did run out of time before I could get something
usable, but I intend to pick the topic up again somewhen over the next
weeks to months.

Florian

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