Updates about mypy, an optional static type checker for Python For statically checking Python code, mypy is great, but it only works after you have added type annotations to your codebase. When you have a large codebase, this can be painful. At Dropbox we’ve annotated over 1.2 million lines of code (about 20% of our total Python codebase), so we know how much work this can be. It’s worth it though