This directory contains several tests:
tests/mypy_test.py
tests typeshed with mypytests/pytype_test.py
tests typeshed with pytype.tests/pyright_test.py
tests typeshed with pyright.tests/check_consistent.py
checks certain files in typeshed remain consistent with each other.tests/stubtest_stdlib.py
checks standard library stubs against the objects at runtime.tests/stubtest_third_party.py
checks third-party stubs against the objects at runtime.
To run the tests, follow the setup instructions
in the CONTRIBUTING.md
document. In particular, we recommend running with Python 3.9+.
Run using:
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/mypy_test.py
The test has four parts. Each part uses mypy with slightly different configuration options:
- Running mypy on the stdlib stubs
- Running mypy on the third-party stubs
- Running mypy
--strict
on the scripts in thetests
directory - Running mypy
--strict
on the regression tests in thetest_cases
directory.
When running mypy on the stubs, this test is shallow — it verifies that all stubs can be imported but doesn't check whether stubs match their implementation (in the Python standard library or a third-party package).
Run python tests/mypy_test.py --help
for information on the various configuration options
for this test script.
Note: this test cannot be run on Windows systems unless you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Run using:
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/pytype_test.py
This test works similarly to mypy_test.py
, except it uses pytype
.
This test requires Node.js to be installed. Although typeshed runs pyright in CI, it does not currently use this script. However, this script uses the same pyright version and configuration as the CI.
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/pyright_test.py # Check all files
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/pyright_test.py stdlib/sys.pyi # Check one file
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/pyright_test.py -p pyrightconfig.stricter.json # Check with the stricter config.
pyrightconfig.stricter.json
is a stricter configuration that enables additional
checks that would typically fail on incomplete stubs (such as Unknown
checks).
In typeshed's CI, pyright is run with these configuration settings on a subset of
the stubs in typeshed (including the standard library).
Run using:
python3 tests/check_consistent.py
Run using
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/stubtest_stdlib.py
This test compares the stdlib stubs against the objects at runtime. Because of
this, the output depends on which version of Python and on what kind of system
it is run.
Thus the easiest way to run this test is via Github Actions on your fork;
if you run it locally, it'll likely complain about system-specific
differences (in e.g, socket
) that the type system cannot capture.
If you need a specific version of Python to repro a CI failure,
pyenv can help.
Due to its dynamic nature, you may run into false positives. In this case, you
can add to the allowlists for each affected Python version in
tests/stubtest_allowlists
. Please file issues for stubtest false positives
at mypy.
To run stubtest against third party stubs, it's easiest to use stubtest directly, with
(.venv3)$ python3 -m mypy.stubtest \
--custom-typeshed-dir <path-to-typeshed> \
<third-party-module>
stubtest can also help you find things missing from the stubs.
Run using
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/stubtest_third_party.py
Similar to stubtest_stdlib.py
, but tests the third party stubs. By default,
it checks all third-party stubs, but you can provide the distributions to
check on the command line:
(.venv3)$ python3 tests/stubtest_third_party.py Pillow toml # check stubs/Pillow and stubs/toml
For each distribution, stubtest ignores definitions listed in a @tests/stubtest_allowlist.txt
file,
relative to the distribution. Additional packages that are needed to run stubtest for a
distribution can be added to @tests/requirements-stubtest.txt
.