Alex Waygood

> it hasn't been made clear what specifically is being tested for in these circumstances I'm sorry to hear that. Did the revisions I made to the README in #8445...

(I've changed the title of this issue, since we're pretty off-topic from the original purpose of this issue. We can carry on talking about what the purpose of the test...

> Thanks, Alex. Apologies for derailing the conversation like that No worries, it happens :) it's a useful discussion to have!

I think this discussion has run its course, and we've made further updates to the documentation, so I'll close this out for now. But further feedback in this vein is...

> It looks to me that `memoryview` should be generic over the format. Yeah, this might be quite a big breaking change given that it's a builtin.

> @AlexWaygood given this mypy bug, what do you think of returning to `Callable[..., Any]` for now? Sounds good to me.

I merged #8373. Is there a risk that this mypy bug could hit users for any of the other functions that were changed in #7012? Or are we good to...

Here's the results I get from running @hauntsaninja's branch on the stdlib in 2022. Several have been fixed, but there's also a few new ones: ``` error: ctypes.LittleEndianStructure is inconsistent,...

> To simplify the process, is there a tool to merge existing stubs into a project's codebase for faster adoption? pytype's `merge_pyi` tool does this: https://github.com/google/pytype/tree/main/pytype/tools/merge_pyi

There's an effort to improve documentation of Python-typing/typeshed etc. at https://typing.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#. I don't know that pytype's `merge_pyi` tool is mentioned there, and it might be a useful thing to mention....