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That's only true for greenfield projects where people start a new project with types in mind. It's absolutely a nightmare for old projects because, without the need to write types, people write all kinds of code that cannot fit within what's possible in python's type annotations.


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poincaredisk12/09/2024

In my opinion it's a bad practice, and rewriting code to be typeable is a good idea for refactoring.

But I write Python for some time now, and I know what you mean. I have nightmares about codebases with dynamically generated class fields for example (though I heard ruby is even worse)