So how do I know if a function will return a list or a string? Will it be "get_things_list" ? Or maybe 'get_things', it's got an s, so therefor it's many things

So how do I know if a function will return a list or a string? Will it be "get_things_list" ? Or maybe 'get_things', it's got an s, so therefor it's many things? Or at least an iterable thing? Or maybe an object that contains some values? If there are many things can I index into it, or just iterate over it? If I have to guess, will that force me to use a List over an Iterable, even if that's the wrong abstraction? At some point you have to convey the type or I have no idea wtf you're giving me, and I'd rather have you convey the type in a way my computer can understand than have you convey it through the godawful way that people name things. That people manage to do so is no endorsement. Humans managed for quite a while without antiseptic but I don't hear anyone endorsing going around with shit on their hands. Honestly, I've been programming in both typed and untyped languages for ages and it I am asking how you manage this problem, because I find IDEs radically less effective in dynamically typed languages, I find that I have to ask more questions, do more manual work, etc. In typed languages these things become trivial.