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functions/methods - menator01 - Oct-02-2021
In some of the code I have seen
def somefunc() -> list: or varient. What does that do?
RE: functions/methods - Yoriz - Oct-02-2021
https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-type-hint Wrote:type hint
An annotation that specifies the expected type for a variable, a class attribute, or a function parameter or return value.
Type hints are optional and are not enforced by Python but they are useful to static type analysis tools, and aid IDEs with code completion and refactoring.
Type hints of global variables, class attributes, and functions, but not local variables, can be accessed using typing.get_type_hints().
See typing and PEP 484, which describe this functionality.
RE: functions/methods - menator01 - Oct-02-2021
Thank you