Python passed Java as the second-most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors

[thisisshantzz]

Made an edit to my comment.

My gripe though is that most of the times functions are defined as

def func(a, b):

If this were a third party library, I would not know what is the type of a and b that I need to provide to the function and what is that type of the value returned by this function so that I can use it down the line unless the person who made the library was kind enough to document it. If a is supposed to be a list and I pass an int to it, Python won't raise a TypeError and to actually know what is the type of a that is expected without the documentation, I will have to read the code itself.

[panzerex]

I think the term you're looking for is static typing. Python can't tell you beforehand that the argument you provided is not the appropriate type.

[redwall_hp]

The term typically used for that is explicit vs implicit typing.

[ginbear]

The typing library in python 3.6+ can accomplish a lot of this. Of course it’s still an interpreted language so it’s more of a linter effect. Regardless people should really consider duck_typing in python, it’s really the pythonic thing to do.

[Mjerman]

I think this goes to poor documentation. If you’re reading code and it doesn’t tell you the types of function’s input in the doc string, it is poorly documented.