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Trying to learn a young language, using a tutorial that's more than a year old (metro.co.uk)
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Good old Udemy Elixr/Pheonix courses being irrelevant within 6 months but still trying to con people by saying they're updated to current year.

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[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Python now has type hints, which are not the same as static typing. Those hints do not change program operation. See https://peps.python.org/pep-3107/

You can pass a string to a function parameter annotated as int and Python will happily accept it (assuming the function does not attempt to call a method that a string doesn't have).

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

CAN being the critical word here. If you use tools like pydantic, then yes, typing can be strictly enforced, or as most people use it, you can type only what you want to type.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

You got any code written for Python 3.8 that won't run in 3.13?