On the topic of IDE's, WingIDE has an interesting approach where you can add `assert isinstance(your_var, SomeClass) to the beginning of your functions to help

On the topic of IDE's, WingIDE has an interesting approach where you can add `assert isinstance(your_var, SomeClass) to the beginning of your functions to help Wing analyse your code[1]. It's more verbose than type annotations and doesn't feel very idiomatic sprinkling asserts all through your code but I recall it being pretty helpful (I haven't used Wing in years now). [1] https://wingware.com/doc/edit/helping-wing-analyze-code https://wingware.com/doc/edit/helping-wing-analyze-code