- Shiboken

# shiboken6-genpyi

shiboken6-genpyi is a command line tool to generate Python stub files (.pyi) for any shiboken binding-based module (not just PySide). Stub files define signatures of all classes, methods (including overloads), constants and enums of a module. Signatures also contain type hints. This helps your module integrate with Python type checkers and IDEs. For example, if you use any function from your module, your IDE’s function lookup feature will show you the function signature and its parameters and return value including types.

## Usage

To generate stub files for a module, run the following command:

    shiboken6-genpyi <module_names> [OPTIONS]

where <module_names> is a space-separated list of module names (the modules must be importable from the working directory) and where [OPTIONS] can be one of the following:

- –quiet: Run the tool quietly without output to stdout.

- –outpath <output_dir>: Specify the output directory for the generated stub files. If not specified, the stub files are generated in the location of the module binary.