__import__ is incorectly typed for python 3.6.

[igalic]

here's the function declaration:

def __import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=(), level=0):

and here's mypy's type hints:

def __import__(name: str, globals: Dict[str, Any] = ..., locals: Dict[str, Any] = ...,
               fromlist: List[str] = ..., level: int = -1) -> Any: ...

and here's what that should look like:

def __import__(name: str, globals: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = ..., locals: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = ...,
               fromlist: List[str] = ..., level: int = -1) -> Any: ...

[ilevkivskyi]

This is not mypy's problem (typeshed stubs are shared by several type checkers), could you please instead open this issue on typeshed tracker?

[igalic]

argh, of course. thank you.

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this seems to have been fixed in python/typeshed#1424
but doesn't seem to have been released yet

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so i just realized that mypy bundles its own typeshed, so "all" it'd take to fix this bug is to forward the submodule ref and make a release of mypy itself.

[emmatyping]

@igakic There are plans for a release Friday.