how to declare variable type, C style in python

Question

I'm a programming student and my teacher is starting with C to teach us the programming paradigms, he said it's ok if I deliver my homework in python (it's easier and faster for the homeworks). And I would like to have my code to be as close as possible as in plain C.
Question is:
How do I declare data types for variables in python like you do in C. ex:

int X,Y,Z; 

I know I can do this in python:

x = 0 y = 0 z = 0 

But that seems a lot of work and it misses the point of python being easier/faster than C. So, whats the shortest way to do this?
P.S. I know you don't have to declare the data type in python most of the time, but still I would like to do it so my code looks as much possible like classmates'.

Answer 1

Starting with Python 3.6, you can declare types of variables and funtions, like this :

explicit_number: type 

or for a function

def function(explicit_number: type) -> type:     pass 

This example from this post: How to Use Static Type Checking in Python 3.6 is more explicit

from typing import Dict  def get_first_name(full_name: str) -> str:     return full_name.split(" ")[0]  fallback_name: Dict[str, str] = {     "first_name": "UserFirstName",     "last_name": "UserLastName" }  raw_name: str = input("Please enter your name: ") first_name: str = get_first_name(raw_name)  # If the user didn't type anything in, use the fallback name if not first_name:     first_name = get_first_name(fallback_name)  print(f"Hi, {first_name}!") 

See the docs for the typing module

Answer 2

Edit: Python 3.5 introduced type hints which introduced a way to specify the type of a variable. This answer was written before this feature became available.

There is no way to declare variables in Python, since neither "declaration" nor "variables" in the C sense exist. This will bind the three names to the same object:

x = y = z = 0