Backward compaitablity of type hinted python 3 code

Question

Is there any way to make python 3 code containing type hinting annotations to work with python 2 also?

def get(axyz: list, window_size: int=WINDOW_SIZE) -> numpy.array:
    return numpy.array(axyz)

More importantly is that even possible?

Answer 1

The type annotating syntax is not valid in python2. pep484 mentions stub files for compatibility with python2.