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Runtime vs Static in Python

PythonAdvanced TypingTypeGuardadvanced

What this snippet does

TypeGuard lies to the static checker; if the runtime logic is wrong, it causes runtime crashes.

Expected output

AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'upper'

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