What is the best way to minimize type inference and maximize specification? /u/scaptal Python Education

Hey there 🙂

I will be working in python for a project soon and was wondering as to the different possibilities with regards to specifying the type of variables explicitly.

Don’t get me wrong, the (blind) type inference of python can be very nice at times, but personally I prefer specifying types whenever a variable will only be one specific type.

So I was wondering what best practices and tools there are for enforcing/encouraging myself to do so?

I mean, one obvious one is ofcourse to use type hints in your function definitions (when possible), but I was wondering if there are any more tricks to it, or not 🙂

Hey there 🙂

I will be working in python for a project soon and was wondering as to the different possibilities with regards to specifying the type of variables explicitly.

Don’t get me wrong, the (blind) type inference of python can be very nice at times, but personally I prefer specifying types whenever a variable will only be one specific type.

So I was wondering what best practices and tools there are for enforcing/encouraging myself to do so?

I mean, one obvious one is ofcourse to use type hints in your function definitions (when possible), but I was wondering if there are any more tricks to it, or not 🙂