• Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        The main advantage of typing for me is static linting.

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        1 year ago

        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

        • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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          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