Awesome, thanks for doing this work Craig, Adi, and Wilfredo!

-g

> On Jun 15, 2020, at 8:32 PM, Craig Rodrigues <rodr...@crodrigues.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Adi and Wilfredo who have reviewed my PR's.  Currently in trunk, I 
> have eliminated hundreds of mypy
> errors through a combination of trivial fixes to code, adding type 
> annotations, and adding special comments 
> to turn off mypy errors in a few places.
> 
> I have one more pending PR ( https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1290 
> <https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1290> ) to turn on a mypy build in 
> an Azure pipeline.
> In this run of tox -e mypy there are 437 errors from mypy:
> 
> https://dev.azure.com/twistedmatrix/twisted/_build/results?buildId=1904&view=logs&j=d78da089-4bf6-58fe-28a5-46635fd5b8d1&t=45ce7910-c28c-5e9a-4ee7-e041d314a5fc
>  
> <https://dev.azure.com/twistedmatrix/twisted/_build/results?buildId=1904&view=logs&j=d78da089-4bf6-58fe-28a5-46635fd5b8d1&t=45ce7910-c28c-5e9a-4ee7-e041d314a5fc>
> 
> I think we can gradually whack these down to zero mypy errors, and turn mypy 
> on as part of default CI for Twisted.
> 
> --
> Craig
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:28 AM Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com 
> <mailto:gl...@twistedmatrix.com>> wrote:
> 
> The first step here, however, is to set up the CI infrastructure (tox, etc) 
> to run mypy so that we can ensure that as we start writing type hints, we 
> don't accidentally get any of them wrong and back ourselves into any corners. 
>  Mypy can catch a surprising number of bugs with just the implicit 
> type-checking it does on values that come from the standard library.  In 
> fact, if we do `mypy src/twisted` right now, and exclude the things that 
> would be fixed by adding in https://github.com/Shoobx/mypy-zope 
> <https://github.com/Shoobx/mypy-zope> ("method must have at least one 
> argument" zope.interface definition errors) and fixing up some simple type 
> hints (has no attribute "skip") we still have almost a thousand type errors 
> that we should figure out a way to start correcting or systematically 
> skipping if they're false positives.  I guarantee you there's at least one 
> real bug in there though.
> 
> As you know, I tend to be pretty cautious about sweeping changes to the code 
> that might make it harder to maintain on older versions - type hints are an 
> exception where I think it's absolutely worthwhile to go All In early on.  
> But CI infrastructure for this stuff is a must-have and it might be tricky to 
> get set up initially.
> 
> -glyph
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