Semi-verbose flag that shows which files mypy analyzes

[gvanrossum]

Sometimes (example: #6385) it's useful to be able to see exactly which files mypy is processing. Currently the only way is to use -v and grep stderr for the word "Parsing".

Maybe this is common enough that we could spare a new command-line flag? It would print all the files for which a BuildSource object is created, and all the files that are reached by following imports (with some indicator of which is which).

The order in which files are printed should reflect the order in which they are processed (not the order in which they are specified).

I wouldn't mind adding extra info for each file (e.g. whether its cache entry is used), as long as it remains a single line per file.

Presumably there's also value in printing certain failures, e.g. modules which can't be found but for which no error message is printed (e.g. through --follow-imports=silent). But I would stop here.

[JukkaL]

I can see how this could be useful. One option would be to switch -v to this mode, and move the existing verbose flag to -vv or something.

[forrestchang]

Maybe add a progress bar?

# test.py

from hello_world import hello_world

hello_world(10)

$ mypy --progress test.py
Checking test.py ...................................................... 100%
test.py:5: error: Argument 1 to "hello_world" has incompatible type "int"; expected "str"

Checking hello_world.py .......................................... 100%  SUCCESS!

Found 1 error in 1 file (checked 1 source file)

[gvanrossum]

I’m okay with overloading -v for this.

A progress bar would be a separate issue, please file one.

[hauntsaninja]

#9672 does the first part of this

[JakeSummers]

In the short term, you can use:

mypy  <your-args>.              2> >(grep "Found source") | sed "s_.*path='\(.*\)py'.*_\1py_"