Detecting whether anvil is running in the browser (typing)

[stucork]

The typing module would be a nice addition client side.
As a workaround you can create a temporary solution for when your anvil code is running in the browser.

See this post:

Typing module gone missing

We’ve had a look and this is the result of a skulpt update where function annotations that were previously ignored, now do something on the client. try: from typing import Any, Dict except: pass def foo(x: Dict[Any]) -> None: pass # Dict is not defined # previously no error because the annotation was ignored by the compiler The suggested fix related to this post with the following adjustments: try: from typing import Any, Dict # works on the server except ImportError: fr…