Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: On the one hand, I think that any framework that sets a convention for the meaning of annotations needs to cope with the possibility of other code using a different convention. So in that sense this could be deemed a test case for the robustness of such a framework. :-)
On the other hand, having this precedent might give passers-by and perhaps future stdlib developers the idea that a convention has been adopted by the stdlib -- and its presence might impede the future selection of a better convention for the stdlib (or perhaps for all of Python). So, given that they aren't used, and that they don't even seem to be set consistently, I think it's (marginally) better if they are removed and replaced by comments. FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would adopt a *comment-based* convention for indicating the types of arguments. The Google Python style guide has a useful standard convention for this purpose: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html?showone=Comments#Comments ---------- assignee: gvanrossum -> rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10899> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
