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2026 Python Type System and Tooling Survey is out! typing , survey The 2026 Python Type System and Tooling Survey is out! Take the survey here: Python Type System and Tooling Survey 2026 (or scan the QR code attached at the end). I also want to say a huge thank-you to the folks who co…		2	379	August 7, 2026
About the Typing category		2	1594	October 17, 2023
Spec change proposal: updating/clarifying rules for unpacking TypedDicts in function calls		4	91	August 16, 2026
Define a variadic return value		3	291	August 11, 2026
Clarifying that type checkers should not emit diagnostics in `if not TYPE_CHECKING`		14	705	August 8, 2026
Proposal: allow chaining @final decorator when previous decorators return a non-function		5	294	August 7, 2026
Spec change: Do not require an error for a generic class attribute		1	129	August 7, 2026
Call for Typing Council nominations – July 2026		7	669	August 6, 2026
Looking for draft feedback: Python Typing Survey 2026 typing , feedback , survey		18	655	August 5, 2026
How to decide when to use typing.IO or io.IOBase? help		2	202	August 4, 2026
Spec: metaclass constructors		0	143	July 31, 2026
Treat Literal of all elements of enum equal to the enum in type annotations help		6	277	July 30, 2026
Typing Meetup: July 22nd, 2026 10am PDT		3	394	July 23, 2026
[withdrawn] A decorator to mark AI-assisted code		5	360	July 23, 2026
Allow abstract classes to be assigned to `type[Proto]`?		18	431	July 17, 2026
Interactions with Never leading to undesirable assignability		48	1632	July 16, 2026
Clarifying the float/int/complex special case typing-spec		82	5600	July 15, 2026
Allowing specializing a bound, covariant `TypeVar` with a `Protocol` as a limited form of intersection typing		5	444	July 14, 2026
Conditional imports in stub files		5	1587	July 14, 2026
Proposal: typing.TypeExclude for subtractive/exclusion types typing		12	479	July 6, 2026
Should type(x) == T result in narrowing? (Is type(x) is T better?) typing		3	396	July 6, 2026
Implicit narrowing for immutable containers? (`tuple`, `NamedTuple`, frozen dataclass) typing		2	317	July 4, 2026
Generic function but no `object`		6	265	July 3, 2026
Shorthand syntax for Annotated (Type @ [metadata])		47	2241	June 19, 2026
Proposal: allow extending `warnings.deprecated`		2	191	June 18, 2026
How to annotate the argument type for method `write`? help , typing		2	240	June 17, 2026
Spec: `TypedDict` and `isinstance(obj, dict)` narrowing		27	597	June 16, 2026
Introduce a TypedMapping (analog to TypedDict but frozen)		10	1535	June 11, 2026
Using `@deprecated` for all overloads in stubs typing , typing-spec		31	976	June 7, 2026
Deprecated overloaded property setters		3	287	June 5, 2026

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