Add py.typed

[davetapley]

Better late than never 😁

#111

[ehinman]

Hey there, thanks for your contribution. How would you suggest I test this?

[davetapley]

@ehinman if you use and IDE with type checking (or manually run through e.g. MyPy) you'll get the error show on #111, but with this change you won't. More info on #11.

Thanks!

[ehinman]

I am using VSCode and can't seem to recreate the issue - I first pulled down your branch, installed in a new environment, had no problems with the following code (could see type checking, which is what was expected, yay!):

import dataretrieval.wqp as wqp
wqp.get_results()

But then I removed your installation of dataretrieval and just tried pip install dataretrieval and I had the same result (no red error indications or anything).

I am all for following conventions, and I appreciate you adding this in. Just to make sure I'm clear, do we also need to add the following to setup.py (seen in this article)?:

from setuptools import setup

setup(
    package_data={"dataretrieval": ["py.typed"]}
)

[davetapley]

Good catch on setup.py, I pushed that ✅

Weird, I thought it might be a Juypter thing, but nope:

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Here's my info, for the record:

VSCode

Version: 1.100.0
Commit: 19e0f9e681ecb8e5c09d8784acaa601316ca4571
Date: 2025-05-07T12:48:53.763Z (2 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
ElectronBuildId: 11369351
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 21.6.0

Python extension

Version
2025.6.0
Last Updated
2025-05-08, 12:33:10

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I even tried a basic test.py with same import as your example, and get:

$ pyright test.py 
/workspaces/ng/test.py
  /workspaces/ng/test.py:1:8 - error: Stub file not found for "dataretrieval.wqp" (reportMissingTypeStubs)
1 error, 0 warnings, 0 informations 

$ pyright --version
pyright 1.1.400

[thodson-usgs]

I'm wasn't able to reproduce the error using mypy. Would you mind pasting your 'test.py' in the thread?

[davetapley]

@thodson-usgs it was literally just:

import dataretrieval.wqp as wqp

wqp.get_results()

But now I cannot reproduce 😑

I did recently just switch to using uv and reinstalled everything, so perhaps I was just on an older version. Sorry for the trouble!

[thodson-usgs]

This is redundant to #186