Type checking tools for Python 2?

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/21/2015 2:08 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I've been following along with the discussions related to type
> hints[1] on python-ideas and python-dev. I'm interested enough to
> start looking into this for my own nefarious purposes. At work, we
> have lots of C++ code wrapped by Boost.Python. It seems like creating
> type hint stubs for those libraries might be useful. Even if it proves
> not to be all that useful for me, it's a ready code base which I could
> mess around with and not bother anybody else.
>
> Alas, my environment is still 100% Python 2.7. It looks like mypy
> isn't going to be doing Python 2.x anytime soon. Are there any type
> hint/check tools available which will work with Python 2?

I believe mypy can typecheck 2.x code in conjunction with stub files. 
The fact that you have to install Python 3 to run mypy should be irrelevant.

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Terry Jan Reedy