Type Hinting

Learn about typing in Python and use MyPy to fix typing in suggested functions.

Overview

Strong static typing catches many errors that can be missed in a dynamic typing environment. Python’s type hinting can slightly reduce the need for runtime checks. It also improves code understanding for other engineers.

Let’s consider an example below. First, we’ll execute the code below to see if it works successfully or not with the broken type annotation.

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