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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by tjoff on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:09AM (#31118735)
You don't think that "the author thought that this function would return X, but I got Y" is useful?
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by kadoban on Friday April 22, 2022 @11:37AM (#31122938)
Only for archeological, and maybe sometimes psychological investigations of code.
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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by tjoff on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:07AM (#31132577)
That line of reasoning doesn't make any sense to me.

If the author / last person who touched the code misunderstood it then there is a 100% chance there is a bug here.

Knowing that off the bat is quite helpful. And it also tells something about the code quality if it is a common occurrence.

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Re:Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me by smitty1e on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:37PM (#31172848)
Could be an indicator to look up the file in git log.

Which need would send me back to pypi to look at other prior art, if possible.

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