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typing Module (List, Dict, Optional, Union)

Medium Priority18 min readUpdated June 6, 2026

This lesson is about the typing module, the standard library module that fills in everything basic generics don't cover: optional values, multiple allowed types, function signatures as values, and the abstract collection types you should reach for when writing function parameters. We'll also cover the modern | operator, which has quietly replaced most of typing.Union and typing.Optional in idiomatic 3.10+ code.

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