Typehints / intellisense for Brython?

Developing in Brython makes your IDE throw all sorts of inspection warnings, since the IDE cannot find the imports.

Steps to Fix:

1. Stubs for Brython specific modules be created, and exposed via the brython package, so that they are accessible in the code as from brython.browser import document.

2. Allow imports via the brython package. That is, the following two imports should produce the same results when brython is loaded on the webpage.

   from browser import html
   

   from brython.browser import html
   

Everything else remains the same. These newly exposed modules simply provide the IDE with the definitions. Brython still uses its precompiled brython.js and brython_stdlib.js files to provide functionality for these imports.

[gilch]

Maybe a .pyi file with type annotations would suffice? PyCharm, at least, seems to use those even if the corresponding .py file is absent. See PEP 484 for more information about the .pyi files. I’m also not sure if going through the brython package is necessary. It should be possible to have the PyPI package install multiple modules.

[PierreQuentel]

I understand the need, but solving this issue requires a good knowledge of development tools. I can’t keep it in the scope of the Brython project, so I am closing it with the tag “won’t fix”. Sorry about that ! If you want to create a specific project for this, I will try to help if I can.