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Question: Why not *-stubs but types-* in typeshed? #7434
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As the title says. Is the reason simply to make a distinction?
Ref:
As many packages don’t support type checking yet, you may also have to install a separate stub package, usually named
types-<library>.
https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installed_packages.html#creating-pep-561-compatible-packages
If the package is stub-only (not imported at runtime), the package should have a prefix of the runtime package name and a suffix of
-stubs.
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hauntsaninja commentedon Mar 4, 2022
Most of this history here is on #2491
I seem to remember one consideration was PyPA creating namespaces in the future, which is why we went with a prefix.
eggplants commentedon Mar 4, 2022
Thank you for your answer!