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Provide mypy stubs for the Python SDK

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by tracing how the Python SDK is generated from dropbox-api-spec with stone and how releases are packaged; then determine where the generated mypy stubs should be published. Done means users can obtain stubs through the proposed PyPI package or typeshed and keep them updated with SDK releases.

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Description

enhancement

Why is this feature valuable to you? Does it solve a problem you're having?
Type checking of Python code can be incredibly helpful to write readable and maintainable code.

Describe the solution you'd like
Currently, these stubs can be mostly automatically generated from https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-api-spec using stone. However, it would be convenient if you could make those stubs available as a separate package on PyPI typeshed which gets updated with new releases of the SDK.

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