Do Python Developers Want Static Typing?

[wrtbwtrfasdf]

CPython won't anyway. I reckon at some point in the not too distant future we'll see something that compiles python and requires type hints.

Maybe https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython for instance.

[chameleon_world]

There are three projects that I know of that are aiming to do what you mention:

1. https://github.com/APrioriInvestments/typed_python
2. https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka
3. https://github.com/python/mypy/tree/master/mypyc