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title: "💭 PyAnnotate: Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations"
description: "!https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate"
date: 2024-06-26
published: true
tags:
  - python
  - thought
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      <div class="embed-card-title">GitHub - dropbox/pyannotate: Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations</div>
      <div class="embed-card-description">Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations. Contribute to dropbox/pyannotate development by creating an account on GitHub.</div>
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pyannotate is a tool that uses runtime types to suggest type annotations to use.  Test runners such as pytest can be used to generate the types.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>