Initial work for type checking.

Author: ThosRTanner

.flake8

@@ -3,12 +3,18 @@ builtins = _
 exclude =
     .git,
     __pycache__,
-    .venv/,venv/,
+    .venv/,
+    venv*/,
     .tox/,
-    build/,dist/,*egg,
+    build/,
+    dist/,
+    *egg,
     docs/conf.py,
-    zookeeper/
+    zookeeper/,
 # See black's documentation for E203
 max-line-length = 79
-extend-ignore = BLK100,E203
+# I am not sure what version of flake8 hound is using
+# but it gives a lot of undefined names for comments (F821)
+# and redefinition of unused variables (F811)
+extend-ignore = BLK100,E203,F811,F821
 

.gitignore

@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ zookeeper/
 .project
 .pydevproject
 .tox
-venv
+venv*/
 /.settings
 /.metadata
+__pycache__/
 
 !.gitignore
 !.git-blame-ignore-revs
 
+.vscode/settings.json

setup.cfg

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ docs =
 
 typing =
     mypy>=0.991
+    types-gevent
 
 alldeps =
     %(dev)s