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# typeshed
## About
Typeshed models function types for the Python standard library
and Python builtins, as well as third party packages.
This data can e.g. be used for static analysis, type checking or type inference.
## Format
Each Python module is represented by a `.pyi` "stub". This is a normal Python
file (i.e., it can be interpreted by Python 3), except all the methods are empty.
Python function annotations ([PEP 3107](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/))
are used to describe the types the function has.
See [PEP 484](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/) for the exact syntax
of the stub files.
## Directory structure
We store stubs for both Python 2 as well as Python 3. We also distinguish
between minor versions (E.g. 3.2 <-> 3.3). To accomplish not having to duplicate
modules that are the same between all minor versions, we have e.g. a top-level
directory 3/ that contains all the stubs for Python 3. More specialized stubs
go into e.g. 3.3/ and supersede the more generic stubs in 3/. (And, if needed,
a directory 3.3.1/ would be able to supersede stubs in 3.3/):
Directory | Contents
------------- | -------------
2.7/ | Stubs for Python 2.7
3/ | Stubs for Python 3
3.3/ | Some specialized stubs for Python 3.3 (replacing generic stubs in 3/)
## Example
The below is an excerpt from the types for the `datetime` module.
```
MAXYEAR = ... # type: int
MINYEAR = ... # type: int
__doc__ = ... # type: str
__file__ = ... # type: str
__name__ = ... # type: str
__package__ = ... # type: None
class date(object):
def __init__(self, year: int, month: int, day: int): ...
@classmethod
def fromtimestamp(cls, timestamp: int or float) -> date: ...
@classmethod
def fromordinal(cls, ordinal: int) -> date: ...
@classmethod
def today(self) -> date: ...
def ctime(self) -> str: ...
def weekday(self) -> int: ...
```
## Contributions
We're welcoming contributions (pull requests) for types of third party
packages. They'll go under {2.7,3}/dist-packages/.