From 924f693000a51e860bead6238a298a40b41e6cca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@dropbox.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:16:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Document "x = ... # type: <type>" for use in stubs. Closes
 #81.

---
 pep-0484.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pep-0484.txt b/pep-0484.txt
index c02745076..c10499e5e 100644
--- a/pep-0484.txt
+++ b/pep-0484.txt
@@ -678,6 +678,14 @@ Examples of type comments on ``with`` and ``for`` statements::
       # Here x and y are floats
       ...
 
+In stubs it may be useful to declare the existence of a variable
+without giving it an initial value.  This can be done using a literal
+ellipsis::
+
+  from typing import IO
+
+  stream = ...  # type: IO[str]
+
 The ``# type: ignore`` comment should be put on the line that the
 error refers to::