Typed Python: Choose Sequence over List - eviltoast

A blog post on choosing more specific types rather than general ones like list and dict.

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    1 year ago

    The problem is that there’s a severe hole in the ABCs: there is no distinction between “container whose elements are mutable” and “container whose elements and size are mutable”.

    (related, there’s no distinction for supporting slice operations or not, e.g. deque)