Alex Waygood

Many pytype errors when importing classes from `collections.abc` instead of `typing` in typeshed

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In https://github.com/python/typeshed/pull/6688, I attempted to change the typeshed stubs to import objects from `collections.abc` instead of `typing` wherever possible. However, a number of errors were output by pytype if the...

Unpin stubtest from 3.10.5

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Fixes #8510

Add `_threading_local.local.__delattr__` back to the stub

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Closes #8504

Stubtest failures due to 3.10.6

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3.10.6 was released a few days ago, and this caused a few stubtest failures on #8507. Unfortunately, GitHub Actions only seems to be using 3.10.6 for the Ubuntu stubtest run;...

Should `decimal.Context.__delattr__` be in the stub?

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#8483 by @sobolevn deleted `decimal.Context.__delattr__` from the stub, on the grounds that it had the exact same signature as `builtins.object.__delattr__`. I think the rationale for this deletion was incorrect, as...

Why do we have test cases?

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~~We currently only have test cases for our stdlib stubs, and don't currently have the infrastructure set up to allow us to add test cases for any of our third-party...

Currently, we have mypy's `--warn-unused-ignore` setting enabled for the whole `test_cases` directory, but for pyright, we have to manually add `# pyright: reportUnnecessaryTypeIgnoreComment=true` at the top of each file in...

`weakref.finalize`: Remove TODO comment

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Closes #8437

mypy_test: Are `exclude` and `filter` useful?

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`mypy_test.py` has two command-line arguments that I find somewhat useless: `filter` and `exclude`. (It looks like they've stayed more-or-less the same since the script's inception 7 years ago.) I'd like...

This came up at a mentored sprint event at pycon just now -- a new contributor was trying to use a conda virtual environment instead of the stdlib `venv`, but...