Python 3, an Illustrated Tour Transcripts
Chapter: Type Annotations
Lecture: Variable annotations
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So we saw the new style, 526 style of annotating variables. Pep 484 had another style for annotating variables allowed us to do in a comment.
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So if you put the comment with type colon, and then the expression following that, in this case str, we could use this older style pep 484.
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Python 3.6 supports this newer style, and so we can just put the colon and the annotation right after that.
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One thing to note when we create these variable annotations is that there is a global variable called __annotations__
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that will be created and it will be updated with the name and the types in there. Note that, again, this middle variable here does not have a value,
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it's just an annotation for a variable. And so if I try and reference that here, I will get a name error that middle is not defined,
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but note that middle is in my annotation. So when I later assign middle, it should correspond with that type.