Why do people use Python instead of C/C++ or Assembly ... than have super-tight polished optically flat code written in C that’s probably pretty brittle if someone else sticks their fingers ...

With Python 3.5, type hints officially became part of the language (PEP 484). Using a linter or code-checking tool, developers can check the consistency of variables and their types across a ...

and created codex_py2cpp as a way to play with the idea of automagically converting Python into C++. It’s not really intended to create robust code conversions, but as far as experiments go ...