python typing: aliases (beginner - intermediate) anthony explains #180

today we talk about type aliases -- a nifty way to shorten some verbose type names or expose a named "type"

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[shashanksharma]

thank you so much for making these videos and sharing this info!

[RoyAAD]

I wanted to create a type that can take int | float('inf'). Is that possible?

[thomashirtz]

5:10 I am a little bit confused how it know that it needs to substitute what you put inside the [] by the "T"s inside the tuple. Could initialize it with several TypeVar ? T, V etc ?

[SpeedingFlare]

I like mypy because it knows when you didn't handle the None case for Optional values