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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by petersellers on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:27AM (#22874818)
> You don't have to use these features if you don't want or need them. Nobody uses 100% of any language's features, and the subset that is used can be very different from person to person. I don't see that as a problem.

The problem is that other people might use those features and you also might have to read the code created by those people.

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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by jordic on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:53AM (#22874970)
And what's the problem on having some type hints on some func signatures?) You can read python exactly the same way (with and without type hints)....
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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:02AM (#22875023)
It's just one more thing you have to get to learn.

I have the same problem with classes in JavaScript. You can't ignore them and stick to prototypes nor ignore prototypes and stick to classes. What should have been a simplification has turned out to make things more complex.

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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by oefrha on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:36AM (#22876569)
Unlike ES6 classes, you absolutely can ignore type hints (and they're easy to ignore). In fact they're basically inline comments, and the interpreter ignores them too.
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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by jordic on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:50AM (#22877086)
Anyway es6 classes it's just a proper way of doing Oop in js.. the prototypal thing it's so ugly...
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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by joshuaavalon on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:34AM (#22875172)
The problem for me is other people not using it. When I call another library, there is no type hint and the documentation is poor.

You can only read the code and guess the type yourself.

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Re:Python programming is drowning in red tape by LeonidasXIV on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @07:32AM (#22876550)
So just like any other dynamically typed language?
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