>I try to add typing in Python where it makes sense (especially external interfaces), mostly as documentation, but am not overly zealous about them like some others I know. Mostly I look at them as better comments.
See you don't type everything because it doesn't improve things from a practical standpoint. You view it as better comments rather then additional type safety. You leave holes in your program where certain random parts aren't type checked. It's like if only half of C++ was type checked, one would think that it'd be a nightmare to program in given that we can't assume type correctness everywhere in the code. but this is not the case.
Your practical usage of types actually proves my point. You don't type everything. You have type holes everywhere and things still function just fine.
I type everything for that extra 1% in safety. But I'm not biased. I know 1% isn't a practical number. I do it partly out of habit from my days programming in haskell.
See you don't type everything because it doesn't improve things from a practical standpoint. You view it as better comments rather then additional type safety. You leave holes in your program where certain random parts aren't type checked. It's like if only half of C++ was type checked, one would think that it'd be a nightmare to program in given that we can't assume type correctness everywhere in the code. but this is not the case.
Your practical usage of types actually proves my point. You don't type everything. You have type holes everywhere and things still function just fine.
I type everything for that extra 1% in safety. But I'm not biased. I know 1% isn't a practical number. I do it partly out of habit from my days programming in haskell.