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Ahmet Altay commented on BEAM-7060:
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Valentyn, what is your estimate for updating the typehint system to support
python 3.6+ ?
IMO, the ideal solution here would be:
- no change for python 2.7 users. They continue to use our existing solution
but no improvements expected.
- Switch to using python 3 native typing (rather than 3rd party library) for
python 3.x users.
As an immediate unblocking action, we could ignore typehints for all 3.6+
users. That sounds reasonable in the interim.
Assigning this to Valentyn for driving the solution.
> Design Py3-compatible typehints annotation support in Beam 3.
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> Key: BEAM-7060
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-7060
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: sdk-py-core
> Reporter: Valentyn Tymofieiev
> Priority: Major
>
> Existing [Typehints implementaiton in
> Beam|[https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/python/apache_beam/typehints/
> ] heavily relies on internal details of CPython implementation, and some of
> the assumptions of this implementation broke as of Python 3.6, see for
> example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-6877, which makes
> typehints support unusable on Python 3.6 as of now. [Python 3 Kanban
> Board|https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=245&view=detail]
> lists several specific typehints-related breakages, prefixed with "TypeHints
> Py3 Error".
> We need to decide whether to:
> - Deprecate in-house typehints implementation.
> - Continue to support in-house implementation, which at this point is a stale
> code and has other known issues.
> - Attempt to use some off-the-shelf libraries for supporting
> type-annotations, like Pytype, Mypy, PyAnnotate.
> WRT to this decision we also need to plan on immediate next steps to unblock
> adoption of Beam for Python 3.6+ users. One potential option may be to have
> Beam SDK ignore any typehint annotations on Py 3.6+.
> cc: [~udim], [~altay], [~robertwb].
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