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"# type: ignore" does not seem to work on multiline dicts #627
Description
There seems to be inconsistent behavior between these two equivalent pieces of code.
mypy is happy with this:
import http.client
errors = {'not_found': http.client.NOT_FOUND} # type: ignorebut this fails with "module" has no attribute "NOT_FOUND" (no matter where I put the annotation):
import http.client
errors = { # type: ignore
'not_found': http.client.NOT_FOUND # type: ignore
} # type: ignore
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JukkaL commentedon Mar 31, 2015
Thanks for reporting this! I think the reason is that mypy only recognizes ignore annotations on the last line of a statement, which is clearly broken.
I think that there are also some other cases where
# type: ignoremight not work correctly. The feature is still going to need a bit more love :-) If you spot any other cases where it behaves strangely, please report them since this is a pretty important feature.JukkaL commentedon Apr 5, 2015
Your example should now work like this:
The
# type: ignorecomment should be put on the line that the error refers to. This way we can only ignore parts of a multi-line statement, which can be useful in cases such as large dict literals.gvanrossum commentedon Apr 6, 2015
Do you think we should specify this in the PEP? Or is this a mypy "extra"?