""" PEP 526 introduced a new way of using type annotations on variables. It was introduced in Python 3.6. """ # python >= 3.6 import typing asdf = '' asdf: int # This is not necessarily correct, but for now this is ok (at least no error). #? int() asdf direct: int = NOT_DEFINED #? int() direct with_typing_module: typing.List[float] = NOT_DEFINED #? float() with_typing_module[0]