IDE auto completion

[lazka]

Provide fake python packages for IDE auto completion: most of the logic is already there, so why not

Existing code: https://github.com/strycore/fakegir

[roelandxyz]

Could this also be used to generate stubs for mypy and others?
If Jedi will support stubs someday (davidhalter/jedi#839), then this can also be used for auto completion.
Mypy has a generator for stubs: 'python3 -m mypy.stubgen'. Maybe this can be used?
Is has an option to use .rst docs, but I'm not sure how to use it for gi.

[lazka]

Definitely sounds interesting. I haven't worked with mypy yet besides some small experiments, but I'm planning to give it a go in quodlibet some time.

One question is how we would provide those stubs to users and how jedi/mypy could discover them. Does anything similar exist already?

[roelandxyz]

There is typeshed: https://github.com/python/typeshed
I think this is used by mypy/pycharm/pytype

[lazka]

I've opened pygobject/pycairo#99

my plan is to test things out with pycairo and then take it from there..

[bossjones]

Thank you for looking into this @lazka excited to see the possibilities. fakegir gets you most of the way there, but it is prone to issues and requires quite a bit of manual tweaking(Though I imagine any solution might require tweaking haha). If you need anyone to test this out, just ping me! Fyi, i'm on OS X, using vscode.

[kam193]

Hey, @lazka I'd like to ask if you still plan to support stubs, I'm looking forward to using them :)

[MrinmoyHaloi]

Hey, @lazka I'd like to ask if you still plan to support stubs, I'm looking forward to using them :)

https://github.com/pygobject/pygobject-stubs/