Here is a working stub for the chardet package from PyPI

[ArneBachmann]

from typing import Dict, Text, Union

def detect(byte_str:Union[bytes,str]) -> Dict[Text, Text]: ...

into chardet.pyi.

Works for Python3. For Python2 we might need to handle unciode strings somehow, but I'm struggling with that.

[ju-sh]

@srittau Hi. Is chardet stub available yet? If not can we start working on it?

[srittau]

Contributions are welcome! I don't think we have chardet in typeshed yet.

[ju-sh]

@srittau Cool. Can we use this issue or is it better to create a new one?

[srittau]

This issue is fine for discussing the stub, although details should be discussed in the PR once it is opened.

[ju-sh]

@srittau Made a tiny part of the stub. Partial. Can you have a look? #3734

[srittau]

We are closing all third-party stub requests issues without recent activity. We still welcome pull requests that add these to typeshed, although distributing the stubs with the the third-party package itself is preferable.