In this guide, you will get a look into Python type checking. Traditionally, types have been handled by the Python interpreter in a flexible but implicit way. Recent versions of Python allow you to specify explicit type hints that can be used by different tools to help you develop your code more efficiently.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the following:

• Type annotations and type hints
• Adding static types to code, both your code and the code of others
• Running a static type checker
• Enforcing types at runtime

This is a comprehensive guide that will cover a lot of ground. If you want to just get a quick glimpse of how type hints work in Python, and see whether type checking is something you would include in your code, you don’t need to read all of it. The two sections Hello Types and Pros and Cons will give you a taste of how type checking works and recommendations about when it’ll be useful.

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