---
id: types-waitress
version: "3.0.1.20260724"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# types-waitress — Typing stubs for waitress

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 252.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

types-waitress is a type stub package that provides type annotations for the waitress WSGI application server. It allows static type checkers to understand and validate code that imports and uses waitress, catching type-related errors before runtime. The stubs are maintained as part of the typeshed project and are kept in sync with waitress releases.

This package is purely for development and type-checking workflows—it adds no runtime behavior and has no dependencies. If you use waitress in a codebase where you run mypy, pyright, or similar tools, installing this package enables those tools to type-check your waitress integration code accurately.

Use it for:

- Enable mypy or pyright to type-check code that calls waitress APIs
- Catch type mismatches in WSGI application configuration before deployment
- Support IDE autocompletion and type hints for waitress function signatures and classes
- Validate custom middleware or server configuration code that interacts with waitress

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides type stubs for the waitress WSGI server, enabling static type checkers like mypy and pyright to validate code that uses waitress.

Yes, if you use waitress and run a static type checker. It is a lightweight, actively maintained stub package with no runtime cost and no security vulnerabilities. Install it alongside waitress in development environments where type checking is part of your workflow.

## Install

pip install types-waitress
uv add types-waitress
poetry add types-waitress

## Installing types-waitress

Before you install: Low friction: a pure-Python stub package with no runtime dependencies. Maintained actively as part of typeshed, with a recent release and no known vulnerabilities.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows free use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install types-waitress

import waitress

Requires Python 3.10 or later; type checking requires mypy, pyright, or another compatible type checker to be installed separately.

Verify before relying:

- Whether type coverage is complete for all waitress 3.0.1 public APIs
- Compatibility with type checkers other than mypy 2.3.0 and pyright 1.1.411

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 252.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

type stubs for waitress, waitress type hints, mypy waitress annotations, pyright waitress types, waitress typing support, type-stubs, typing

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