| # Mypy path symlinks |
| |
| This directory stores symlinks to standard library modules and packages |
| that are fully type-annotated and ready to be used in type checking of |
| the rest of the stdlib or Tools/ and so on. |
| |
| Due to most of the standard library being untyped, we prefer not to |
| point mypy directly at `Lib/` for type checking. Additionally, mypy |
| as a tool does not support shadowing typing-related standard libraries |
| like `types`, `typing`, and `collections.abc`. |
| |
| So instead, we set `mypy_path` to include this directory, |
| which only links modules and packages we know are safe to be |
| type-checked themselves and used as dependencies. |
| |
| See `Lib/_pyrepl/mypy.ini` for an example. |
