On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 18:04, Karsten Hilbert <[email protected]> wrote:

or something like that. Basically, any way to avoid writing `= None` over and over again.

Fundamentally no, at least not without some shenanigans. Type hints do
not affect the regular running of the code,

Except when they do ;-)

... depending on what counts as (valid) code ...

In Python a distinction can be made between "runnable" and "valid" :-D

Can you give a counter-example? I mean, yes, any code can be written
that inspects the annotations at runtime and makes whatever changes it
likes, but that's part of what I described as "shenanigans".

ChrisA

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