Guido van Rossum on Type Hints at PyCon 2015

Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, discusses type hinting in Python 3.5. With type hinting, programmers can use type annotations to provide tools like type checkers and IDEs with more information about the expected types of values and enable better static analysis. This talk was organized by the Bay Area Python Interest Group and held at LinkedIn on March 26, 2015.

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