Type hints can be used to communicate the intended type of a given variable. These are not enforced at runtime and not respecting them might not necessarily lead to runtime errors.


It is however confusing and could lead to maintainability issues.


== Noncompliant Code Example

[source,python]
----
def my_function():
    my_int: int = "string"  # Noncompliant
----


== Compliant Solution

[source,python]
----
def my_function():
    my_str: str = "string" 
----


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