syntax difference

Bart bc at freeuk.com
Sun Jun 17 12:19:38 EDT 2018


On 17/06/2018 09:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 23:11:41 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:
> 
>>     Python is not like other languages.
> 
> Python is not like languages like C, Pascal, Algol, Fortran, D, Java
> (unboxed native values only) and those like that.
> 
> However, Python *is* like other languages like Javascript, Ruby, Java
> (objects only), PHP, and others.
> 
>> For one thing, there are no
>> "variables" in Python (in the way you think of them).
> 
> Indeed -- there are no variables in Python, if you think of a variable as
> meaning a virtual box at a fixed memory address, containing a value, and
> associated with a type, like in C or Pascal.

So what's a Type Hint associated with in Python?

-- 
bart



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