An Intro to Type Checking in Python
Type checking or hinting is a newer feature of Python that was added in Python 3.5. Type hinting is also known as type annotation. Type hinting is adding special syntax to functions and variable declarations that tell the developer what type the argument or variable is.
Python does not enforce the type hints. You can still change types at will in Python …
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