Python is a great language for beginners to learn, and mastering variables and data types is a crucial step in becoming proficient in Python programming.

Enhancements to Python types Python’s type hinting system has expanded in functionality and utility with each new version. Version 3.13 adds three big new changes.

Python 3 introduced the idea of "type annotations," and as of Python 3.6, you can annotate variables, not just function parameters and return values. The idea is that you can put a colon (:) and then ...

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