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Re:Pytype – A static type analyzer for Python code on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:30PM (#19477178)
From the readme of Pytype, it's doing type inference instead of type checking. Although I don't know how accurate it is, type inference is much harder than type checking, especially on a language designed with dynamic typing in mind
Re:Glom – Restructured Data for Python on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:41PM (#17035600)
In http://glom.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#access-gr...,

> After years of research and countless iterations, the glom team landed on this simple construct:

'years of research', 'countless iterations', 'glom team', really?