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		mckn1ght 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cognitive load is what matters I haven’t used type hints in Python, but can what you’re describing lead to situations where the code cannot run and the interpreter gives you a suggestion on how to fix it?

dwattttt 8 months ago [–]

Type hints have no runtime impact, so they can't make stuff not work.

Type linters like mypy can check your code & report something like "this function call requires str, you're providing str | None" though.

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