With prompt, if no input is specified, the return value is not converted to the requested type

[stgraham2000]

If the passed in default is a string but the type parameter is not a string then click should do its best to convert the default to the requested type.

This becomes an issue when using mypy with click. MyPy will complain if you pass anything but a string for the default. One option is to do a type ignore but that starts to pollute the code quickly if you have a lot of prompts that expect integer values. Fixing this also will prevent some accidental bugs where you use different types with your type option and your default. Click should do its best to honor the requested type.

[davidism]

Looks like there was already a special check for the Path type, but it doesn't seem like there was any reason to restrict it to that type, so I simplified it. It was probably because not all types were able to pass through a value that was already the correct type, but that was fixed in #1649 #1687.