Type comments

[yangdanny97]

AFAIK Pyrefly doesn't support type comments for type hints like others do, such as Pylance. Although this isn't an issue for those using Python 3.5+, type comments are really helpful for me and possibly others who struggle with projects in older versions of Python.

Pyrefly does offer great performance improvements, which is why I switched to it. However, the lack of support for type comments is really a pain point for me, and I hope Pyrefly consider adding this feature🙏

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Some examples, more info here

a = 1  # type: int

def foo(a, b):  # type: (int, int) -> int
    return a + b

Originally posted by @sjet47 in #407 (comment)

[connernilsen]

I was under the impression we were not going to support versions of Python older than 3.9. I know projects running versions of Python newer than 3.5 can still have type comments, but I'm not sure it's something worth adding/maintaining, unless it's something that doesn't take much effort on our part.

Are there tools that can convert type comments to inline types?