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Use mypy stub files to extract information about arguments and types of builtin and stdlib functions #254

Open pylint-bot opened 8 years ago

pylint-bot commented 8 years ago

Originally reported by: BitBucket: ceridwenv, GitHub: @ceridwen?

The MyPy people have done a lot of work creating files containing the signatures of builtin/stdlib functions at https://github.com/python/typeshed. By automatically processing the stub files, it would be possible to create more accurate mock ASTs for functions that aren't introspectable.