["python","variables"]
How to declare variable type, C style in Python

I'm a programming student and my teacher is starting with C to teach us the programming paradigms, he said it's ok if I deliver my homework in python (it's easier and faster for the homeworks). And I would like to have my code to be as close as possible as in plain C. Question is: How do I declare data types for variables in python like you do in C. ex: int X,Y,Z; I know I can do this in python: x = 0 y = 0 z = 0 But that seems a lot of work and it misses the point of python being easier/faster than C. So, whats the shortest way to do this? P.S. I know you don't have to declare the data type in python most of the time, but still I would like to do it so my code looks as much possible like classmates'.
Edit: Python 3.5 introduced type hints which introduced a way to specify the type of a variable. This answer was written before this feature became available. There is no way to declare variables in Python, since neither "declaration" nor "variables" in the C sense exist. This will bind the three names to the same object: x = y = z = 0