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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: type annotation vs working code
Date: 30 Sep 2023 19:30:41 GMT
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Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net> writes:
>Where's the error in my thinking (or code) ?

  Boiling down your code to the source file

name:bool
print( name )

  , the "name:bool" specifies the type of the name, but does
  not actually bind the name to a value nor does it require the
  name to have a value, so one gets an error only on the second
  line. Maybe this "feature" is somewhat underdocumented.