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And...exactly the same with mypy, either via in-library typings or the typeshed.

Projects in the npm ecosystem may be somewhat more likely to.have typings if the project exists, but I find that, for anything other than web frontend, where JS is obviously king, the tool I'm looking for is more likely to actually exist in the python ecosystem.



Are there mypy typings available for things like sci-py and simpletransformers, and if so how do I acquire them?


You can gradually annotate these packages locally for your project with [1], and then contribute it to [2].

Automatic stub generation may also be helpful [3]

[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/wiki/Creating-Stubs-For-Pytho...

[2] https://github.com/python/typeshed

[3] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stubgen.html


There’s a couple dozen packages on there. This can’t be described as “exactly the same” as npm/typescript if the scale and level of community involvement [1] is nowhere near the same.

1: among the most important things here, in addition to the strength of the type system, where mypy also lacks




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