When plans go astray: my unsuccessful journey of migrating a large Django project to Mypy
TL;DR - Mypy is amazing, but your code needs to be ready for it. The untyped nature of Python allows magic to happen and shortcuts to be made (at the cost of more runtime errors). Adding a type checker such as Mypy to a codebase developed under this ...
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This is great writing: It's
To think that I almost gave up my research before stumbling upon this article.. Thank you!
(Thank you also for saving us at least a month! Inherited a legacy (undocumented) Django 2 project running in production, and bringing it up to date took almost 2 weeks, so we were thinking about adding static type checking. After reading your thorough write-up though, I think we should be happy that the upgrade and subsequent migration went well..:)