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NathanOsullivan on April 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: PyCharm 2023.1

Re type annotations, is there some non-default setting or plugin I am overlooking?

As a long time pycharm user who recently switched to vscode, I have found pycharm's understanding of type annotations to be borderline broken.

  def foo(value: Optional[str]) -> None:
      print(value.replace("bar", "baz"))

mypy and vscode both point out this will fail when value is None, but my pycharm seems to think this is perfectly fine.

juliusgeo on April 4, 2023 [–]

To be honest I don’t use the type annotations given by the IDE that much, and I also only encounter them in my work code base (pymongo), so I can’t comment on that part. I was mainly commenting just on its ability to handle large code bases.

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