openedx / openedx/XBlock

Add type hints and check them in CI

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Since Jan 30, 2024.

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Description

XBlock is a widely used core library, but is pretty abstract and thus can be hard to reason about. So, this would be a particularly valuable repo to add type hinting to.

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Draft PR here:

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