This repository contains external type annotations (see PEP 484) for the lxml package. Such type annotations are normally included in typeshed, but lxml's annotations were frequently problematic and have therefore been deleted from typeshed. In particular, the stubs are incomplete and it has been difficult to provide complete stubs.
This repo provides lxml stubs as they existed in typeshed for those who find them useful. Eventually, it should become a PEP 561-style stubs package.
To use these stubs with mypy, you have to
install the lxml-stubs package.
If you want to use the stubs as-is, you can build and install the package directly from its repository:
$ pip install https://github.com/lxml/lxml-stubs.git
If you want to make local modifications, you can clone this repository and
tell pip to install a link to the cloned source tree:
$ pip install -e /path/to/lxml-stubs
Contributions should follow the same style guidelines as typeshed.
The early git history of this repo contains commits from typeshed, filtered to only changes that
affect typeshed (using git filter-branch).
This repository was created by Jelle Zijlstra. Numerous others have contributed to the lxml stubs; see the git history for details.
- Provide testing (both a local test script and a Travis setup)
- Provide a PEP 561-style setup script.