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Missing type hinting for function definition

Reports missing type hints for function declaration in one of the two formats: parameter annotations or a type comment.

Select the Only when types are known checkbox if you want the inspection check the types collected from runtime or inferred.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyMissingTypeHints
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PyMissingTypeHintsInspection

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Missing type hinting for function definition inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only when types are known (collected from run-time or inferred)

Option ID:

m_onlyWhenTypesAreKnown

Default value:

Selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyMissingTypeHints

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025