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18th October 2021 - Link Blog

Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3. Very thorough write-up by Seth Michael Larson describing what it took for the urllib3 Python library to fully embrace mypy and optional typing and what they learned along the way.

Posted 18th October 2021 at 7:03 pm

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