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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't Python 3 have types? I've seen a few well typed codebases and it really made the code much easier to understand. Or is it just that it's not checking them strongly enough?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But will it run? I'm used to typescript where it's not checked at runtime but you can't "build" unsafe types I'd assume it's the same here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

no they really are just fancy comments. You can do runtime reflection on them if you wanna make something fancy like a plugin system but that's about it