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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by ledauphin on Thursday April 21, 2022 @06:40PM (#31116063)
Meh. you can do the same thing in Python if you really want - there are dynamic interpreter shims that can do this.

The point is that it is not expected by definition, since by definition, static != runtime.

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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by lolinder on Thursday April 21, 2022 @07:29PM (#31116443)
You're assuming that type hints are by definition static-only. There's no particular reason why type hints can't be both statically and dynamically enforceable, as they are in PHP.
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