As mentioned in the following issue: microsoft/debugpy#931

The type of variables in the "Variables" panel when using the debugger is only shown on mouse hover. So basically the debugpy module already provides the information. When inspecting a series of variables it is quite tedious to hover over every single variable to determine its type. It would be a nice feature to just display it in a separate column or even better using e.g. python type hint syntax: my_var: float = 1.0 or like PyCharm does it.

It took me a while to figure out the problem in my code due to not suspecting differing types for the following two variables:
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