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by nine_zeros 1054 days ago
I used to love python. It made me productive.

Until it introduced the haphazard type system. Now I need to import types in every file, use IF to guard it in CI in every file, and use a powerful IDE to be able to use the benefits of typing.
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notatallshaw 1054 days ago
> Now I need

You don't need to do anything, you can ignore all type hints

> use IF to guard it in CI in every file

Are you talking about "if TYPE_CHECKING:"?

Your other option is to put "from __future__ import annotations" at the top of the file, or wait for Python 3.13 when PEP 649 lands and type annotations become lazily evaluated.

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kzrdude 1054 days ago
typing brings me no happiness either, because it's a lot of work without being complete anyway. Annotations that are not checked vs actual behaviour at runtime can always, by the laws of programming, be subtly incorrect.

I still use python. The recently introduced match statement is a great addition, IMO.

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