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## Querying This Documentation

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# Hypothesis

[Hypothesis](https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/) is the Python library for [property-based testing](https://increment.com/testing/in-praise-of-property-based-testing/). Hypothesis can infer how to construct type-annotated classes, and supports builtin types, many standard library types, and generic types from the [`typing`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html) and [`typing_extensions`](https://pypi.org/project/typing-extensions/) modules by default.

Pydantic v2.0 drops built-in support for Hypothesis and no more ships with the integrated Hypothesis plugin.

Caution

We are temporarily removing the Hypothesis plugin in favor of studying a different mechanism. For more information, see the issue [annotated-types/annotated-types#37](https://github.com/annotated-types/annotated-types/issues/37).

The Hypothesis plugin may be back in a future release. Subscribe to [pydantic/pydantic#4682](https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic/issues/4682) for updates.