I am using a package that does not provide its own type hints so I have built some but cannot see how to get mypy to use them – anyone able to help? Here’s my system:

• Windows
• Using poetry
• Created type hint files *.pyi for external package bob
• If I use poetry env info to locate the site-packages directory and in there create a directory bob-stubs and copy my *.pyi type hints, then mypy is happy, but this is hacky of course!
• If I create a typingsbob-stubs directory in my own package and copy the *.pyi files there, then mypy appears to try and type check the typing hints (!) and throws new errors!
• If I move the type hint files elsewhere and try to set mypy_path in a mypy.ini file, I can see mypy read the mypy.ini file (using -vv) but it seems to ignore the hint files.

I’ve been going around in circles trying get this to work – anyone able to point me in the right directions?