NameError: name 'List' is not defined

Question

I\'m really unsure why this isn\'t working. Here is the important part of the code (it\'s from a leetcode challenge). The first line throws the NameError.

Answer 1

To be able to specify a list of str's in a type hint, you can use the typing package, and from typing import List (capitalized, not to be confused with the built-in list)