/// tip

The next sections are **not necessarily "advanced"**.

And it's possible that for your use case, the solution is in one of them.

///

## Read the Tutorial first { #read-the-tutorial-first }

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# Python Types Intro { #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.

    util.concurrent, like nearly all our packages, has two .gwt.xml files: one
    for prod and one for tests. However, unlike our other packages, as of this
    writing it has test supersource but no prod supersource.

    GWT happens to use the prod .gwt.xml, so it looks for no supersource for
    tests, either. This causes it to fail to find AtomicLongMapTest.

  int copyIntoArray(@Nullable Object[] dst, int offset) {
    // this loop is faster for RandomAccess instances, which ImmutableLists are
    int size = size();
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
      dst[offset + i] = get(i);
    }
    return offset + size;
  }

  /**
   * Returns a view of this immutable list in reverse order. For example, {@code ImmutableList.of(1,

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