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sgarland 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Python developers are embracing type hints

Yes, annotations allows you to use the declared types as they are, no strings.

FreakLegion 11 months ago [–]

It turns them into thunks (formerly strings) automatically, an important detail if you're inspecting annotations at run time because the performance hit of resolving the actual type can be significant.

sgarland 11 months ago | [–]

TIL, thanks! It looks like 3.14 is also changing it so that all evaluations are lazy.

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