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Support for getting annotations from dmypy suggest

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start with the pyannotate CLI path that handles missing type information and compare its behavior with dmypy suggest --json {filename}:{lineno}. The prototype mentioned in the issue may help define the expected fallback. Done means pyannotate can obtain annotations through the fallback when no type information is found.

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Description

I would love if pyannotate could fall back to dympy suggest if no type info is found for a function. I'd be happy to submit a PR for this (I've already created a prototype that works as expected).

If you'd rather do something more abstract/configurable, this could be implemented as a shell command to run as a fallback:

pyannotate --signature-cmd='dmypy suggest --json {filename}:{lineno}'  file1
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