Python doesn't have such types as you describe. There are two types used to represent integral values: int, which corresponds to platform's int type in C, and long, which is an arbitrary …

Oct 1, 2018 · User-defined types are typically pascal case. Python likely derived this naming scheme from C or C++. In C structs are typically lower case (though there are a lot of people …

Side note: Unless your code only has to support Python 3.9 or newer, you want to avoid using the standard library container types in type hinting, as you can't say anything about what types …

I know you can check datatypes in python, but how can you set a conditional based on the datatype? For instance, if I have to write a code that sorts through a dictionary/list and adds up …

Aug 3, 2014 · In Python, you can use the built-in isinstance() function to check if an object is of a given type, or if it inherits from a given type. To check if the object o is of type str, you would …

I have a function in python that can either return a bool or a list. Is there a way to specify the types using type hints? For example, is this the correct way to do it? def foo (id) -> list or b...

Jun 15, 2016 · How can I specify the type hint of a variable as a function type? There is no typing.Function, and I could not find anything in the relevant PEP, PEP 483.

Jul 4, 2012 · Python is strongly, dynamically typed. Strong typing means that the type of a value doesn't change in unexpected ways. A string containing only digits doesn't magically become …

Feb 26, 2012 · Python maps numpy dtypes to python types, I'm not sure how, but I'd like to use whatever method they do. I think this must happen to allow, for example, multiplication (and …

Nov 13, 2009 · I am writing a script that will try encoding bytes into many different encodings in Python 2.6. Is there some way to get a list of available encodings that I can iterate over?