Funny. I have the exact opposite experience. Type hints tell me what the code actually does and what kind of arguments functions and methods actually expect. I

Funny. I have the exact opposite experience. Type hints tell me what the code actually does and what kind of arguments functions and methods actually expect. It's all sunshine and rainbows if you work with well documented libraries, but there are tons of python libs out there that just use *kwargs as their function signatures with maybe - if you're lucky - a list of actual keywords (no types or description though). Those are hell to work with, because the IDE can't tell you what's going on. So you either have to delve into sample code (and hope that's still up-to-date) or look at the source code to figure out what the heck is going on. So no, I personally don't find type hints useless at all - especially for libraries. Readability OTOH is subjective and mostly just a matter of what you're used to, anyway.