👆 💪 📣 👈 🔢 💪 🙆 **📚 🆎**, 🖼, `int` ⚖️ `str`.

🐍 3️⃣.6️⃣ & 🔛 (✅ 🐍 3️⃣.1️⃣0️⃣) 👆 💪 ⚙️ `Union` 🆎 ⚪️➡️ `typing` & 🚮 🔘 ⬜ 🗜 💪 🆎 🚫.

🐍 3️⃣.1️⃣0️⃣ 📤 **🎛 ❕** 🌐❔ 👆 💪 🚮 💪 🆎 👽 <abbr title='also called "bitwise or operator", but that meaning is not relevant here'>⏸ ⏸ (`|`)</abbr>.

=== "🐍 3️⃣.6️⃣ &amp; 🔛"

    ```Python hl_lines="1  4"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial008b.py!}
    ```

# Python Types Intro

Python has support for optional "type hints" (also called "type annotations").

These **"type hints"** or annotations are a special syntax that allow declaring the <abbr title="for example: str, int, float, bool">type</abbr> of a variable.

By declaring types for your variables, editors and tools can give you better support.

In Python 3.10 there's also a **new syntax** where you can put the possible types separated by a <abbr title='also called "bitwise or operator", but that meaning is not relevant here'>vertical bar (`|`)</abbr>.