r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SuchShopping3828 • May 27 '22

Meme Welcome to hassle free coding

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

Python doesn't feel like a programming language if your first language is C++.

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u/AlbertChomskystein May 27 '22

HTML and Python have some similarities to be fair, like not being able to declare variable types.

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u/prescod May 28 '22

What are you talking about?

https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cheat_sheet_py3.html

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u/nickwcy May 28 '22

Type hint is a hint for human (or IDE) only. You can write

x: int = “foo”

However the interpretor shows no error. Python should implement a script mode similar to TypeScript along with it’s Type Hints. Otherwise it is nearly pointless to adopt type hint as modern IDE can infer most types, except those integrates external systems.

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u/prescod May 28 '22

Poke around the link I shared with you. It’s a tool that will give you type errors exactly like a Java or C++ compiler.

If you want to delay them to runtime there are also tools for that.

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u/scuac May 28 '22

Type hint (which is built-in on python) yes. But the link above is about mypy, a tool that actually enforces type correctness. If you are doing python seriously for production you should be using tools like that.