Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Every Python Dev Should Know THIS Concept" video.

  1. Consider that type annotations didn't always exist, so `foo = int()` made perfect sense then to inform the reader that it was supposed to be an int.
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  2.  @coolcodingcat  You missed the point there. That's an explicit function call, where Python wouldn't require such explicitness.
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  3. It's actually the same in a few other languages, such as C++, just that it's usually hidden and not called directly. However, in most normal instances, you still can call it.
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