Any love for type hints / mypy / typing?

[daniel-j-h]

Hey folks 👋 I'm working on some projects coming with type annotations and I'm using mercantile in there, too.

That's why I'm asking what your thoughts are re. type hints / mypy / typing and shipping them with this library? Should we think about and introduce type hints to mercantile? (and maybe even similar libs in the python geo space - but start with mercantile since it's self-contained and rather small)

Do you have any thoughts, experiences, or blockers?

[geospatial-jeff]

I think type hints are never a bad idea, I'm happy to do a PR to add them.

[Rubix982]

We can also use something like Pydantic for a bit more complex or complete set of features we can use with both functions and classes.

[sgillies]

No to pydantic. Yes to typing, but that's something I'll take on after I make a roadmap for 2.0. I won't have any time to review PRs until after that @geospatial-jeff, so it would be best to hold off.

[kylebarron]

I don't see a 2.0 roadmap, but in case anything has changed on this, I'd also be happy to make a PR!