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A blog post on choosing more specific types rather than general ones like list and dict.

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[โ€“] meadsteve@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

yeah it's an interesting case that an int can be treated as a float. I should probably update my post to mention that it's not strictly a supertype but a special exception mentioned in python's typehinting pep: https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/#the-numeric-tower