docs: Add a warning about editing mypy stubs and the daemon.

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Tim Abbott 2018-12-17 10:27:51 -08:00
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@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ everything in the third-party module as an `Any`, which is the right
model (one certainly wouldn't want to need stubs for everything just
to use `mypy`!), but means the code can't be fully type-checked.
**Note**: When editing stubs, we recommend using
`tools/run-mypy --no-daemon`, because the mypy daemon's caching
system has some bugs around editing stubs that can be confusing.
## `type_debug.py`
`zerver/lib/type_debug.py` has a useful decorator `print_types`. It

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# Logistics of what code to check and how to handle the data.
scripts_are_modules = True
show_traceback = True
# See https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/testing/mypy.html#mypy-stubs-for-third-party-modules
# for notes on how we manage mypy stubs.
mypy_path = stubs/
cache_dir = var/mypy-cache