How do I annotate types in a for-loop

Question

I want to annotate a type of a variable in a for-loop. I tried this:

for i: int in range(5):
    pass

But it didn\'t work, obv

Answer 1

None of the responses here were useful, except to say that you can't. Even the accepted answer uses syntax from the PEP 526 document, which isn't valid python syntax. If you try to type in

x: int

You'll see it's a syntax error.

Here is a useful workaround:

for __x in range(5):
    x = __x  # type: int
    print(x)

Do your work with x. PyCharm recognizes its type, and autocomplete works.