What are type hints in Python 3.5?

Question

One of the most talked about features in Python 3.5 is type hints.

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Answer 1

The newly released PyCharm 5 supports type hinting. In their blog post about it (see Python 3.5 type hinting in PyCharm 5) they offer a great explanation of what type hints are and aren't along with several examples and illustrations for how to use them in your code.

Additionally, it is supported in Python 2.7, as explained in this comment:

PyCharm supports the typing module from PyPI for Python 2.7, Python 3.2-3.4. For 2.7 you have to put type hints in *.pyi stub files since function annotations were added in Python 3.0.