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niklas Hansson commented on BEAM-7060:
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Hi, 

Yes I working on some parts related to this. Believe it should be possible to 
do some relative quick fixes for the mean time. But in the long time remaking 
it completely sound good :) 

> Design Py3-compatible typehints annotation support in Beam 3.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>            Assignee: Udi Meiri
>            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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