Mypy, Pytype, Pyright, and Pyre can help you keep your type-hinted Python code bug-free. Let’s see what each of these useful tools has to offer.

One feature explicitly not planned is support for Python 2; Microsoft doesn’t intended to offer it. By contrast, Mypy, and many other code-linting and type-checking tools for Python, do offer it.

A new open source VS Code extension called pyright has been created as a Microsoft 'side project' to improve on current offerings for static type checking for the Python programming language.

A new open source VS Code extension called pyright has been created as a Microsoft 'side project' to improve on current offerings for static type checking for the Python programming language.