django-stubs VS returns

Compare django-stubs vs returns and see what are their differences.

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django-stubs returns
7 20
1,436 3,226
3.3% 3.9%
9.6 9.1
2 days ago 1 day ago
Python Python
MIT License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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django-stubs

Posts with mentions or reviews of django-stubs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-17.
  • Mypy 1.6 Released
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023
    Pyright doesn't work with Django, as Django's so dynamic that it requires a plugin to infer all types correctly. Sadly, even mypy with plugins is a mess to get set up in vscode, especially if you want it to use the same config as you use for ci checks from the command line.

    We use mypy + [django-stubs](https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs) (in a huge Django + drf project at day job) which includes a plugin for mypy allowing it to recognize all reverse relations and manager methods. Mypy is still really rough around the edges. The cli args are poorly documented, and how they correspond to declarations in a mypy.ini / pyproject.toml is mysterious. Match-statements still have bugs even a year after release. Exclusion of untyped / partially typed files and packages we've had to solve with grep filtering mypy's output for our whitelisted set of files, as it's been unable to separate properly between errors you care about (in your own codebase) and errors in others code (dependencies, untypable dynamic python packages etc).

    The largest issue IMO is that mypy tried to adapt a java / OOP style way of type system onto python, instead of recognizing the language's real power within duck typing and passing structural types around. Typescript chose the right approach here, modelling javascript the way it is actually written, favoring structural over nominal typing, instead of the archaic and now left-behind way of Java-style OOP that has influenced mypy.

    There was a recently accepted PEP which allowed for limited dataclass transforms, enough to cover the @attr.s usecase for both mypy and pyright, but nowhere near expressive enough to cover django's models and ORM sadly. It's probably impossible / undesirable to allow for such rich plugins, so i see the future for proper pluginless typing to be more akin to how pydantic / normal dataclasses solve typing, by starting with a specification of the types, deriving its runtime implementation, instead of plugins having to reverse the type representation of a custom DSL.

  • Boring Python: Code Quality
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    You can annotate the manager and get some typing help in the editor. And there’s django-stubs which helps a little when running mypy. It’s not as good as pycharm though.

    https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs/tree/master

  • Python 3.11.0 final is now available
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    > Yes, there are type stubs for these libraries but they’re either forced to be more strict, preventing use of dynamism, or opt for being less strict but allowing you to use all the library features, at the cost of safety.

    There are type stubs for Django that somewhat avoid these compromises: https://github.com/typeddjango/django-stubs

    To be able to do this they have to use a Mypy plugin though. And even then it's still far from perfect.

  • Welcome to hassle free coding
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 28 May 2022
  • Is Rust Web Yet?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2022
    Mypy together with this plug-in gives you typing for django. https://github.com/TypedDjango/django-stubs

returns

Posts with mentions or reviews of returns. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing django-stubs and returns you can also consider the following projects:

Toolz - A functional standard library for Python.

CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities

Deal - 🤝 Design by contract for Python. Write bug-free code. Add a few decorators, get static analysis and tests for free.

Coconut - Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP

funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools

effect - effect isolation in Python, to facilitate more purely functional code

classes - Smart, pythonic, ad-hoc, typed polymorphism for Python

Pyrsistent - Persistent/Immutable/Functional data structures for Python

strawberry - A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations 🍓

pandas-stubs - Pandas type stubs. Helps you type-check your code.

fp-ts - Functional programming in TypeScript