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Given that python is entirely dynamically typed... it's completely unnecessary, python has been able to replace implementations of X with Y for essentially forever.

Yes, there are tool-assisting type hint systems. But they're not part of the runtime. At runtime, if it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, and it matters not one bit what brand the duck is or how much of its innards match what you think ducks have inside them.



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