#539: Catching up with the Python Typing Council
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#539: Catching up with the Python Typing Council

You're adding type hints to your Python code, your editor is happy, autocomplete is working great. But then you switch tools and suddenly there are red squiggles everywhere. Who decides what a float annotation actually means? Or whether passing None where an int is expected should be an error? It turns out there's a five-person council dedicated to exactly these questions -- and two brand-new Rust-based type checkers are raising the bar. On this episode, I sit down with three members of the Python Typing Council -- Jelle Zijlstra, Rebecca Chen, and Carl Meyer -- to learn how the type system is governed, where the spec and the type checkers agree and disagree, and get the council's official advice on how much typing is just enough.

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#24: Fluent Python

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#23: 3D Printing with Python at Authentise

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#22: CPython Internals and Learning Python with pythontutor.com

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#21: PyPy - The JIT Compiled Python Implementation

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#20: Interactive Python and Teaching Python: Beyond Text Books

#20: Interactive Python and Teaching Python: Beyond Text Books

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#18: Python Anti-patterns and other mistakes

#18: Python Anti-patterns and other mistakes

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#17: Python on bare metal with MicroPython

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