<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">In a recent PR (<a href="https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/14284" class="">https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/14284</a>), we had a discussion about static typing.<br class="">My understanding from previous PRs, the inclusion of MyPy in the CI and discussions during our last community meetups, was that we wanted<br class="">to gradually start adding type annotations in our code base. Thanks to the great help of Bas van Beek and others, we have a few common bricks we can use to ease the process.<br class=""><br class="">What is your opinion about adding annotations?<br class=""><br class="">I expressed my position in the issue. TL;DR I am in favour of adding type annotations. This greatly helps anyone using an IDE and downstream libraries like SciKit-Learn are basically waiting for us.<div class=""><div class="">Lastly, I am putting here again the link to the last Python Community survey <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2020/" class="">https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/python-developers-survey-2020/</a>,<br class="">static typing is the most wanted feature.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Pamphile</div></div></div></body></html>