Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and > that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose > they see fit?
No, that is less strong than what I said. I agree with Raymond that they should be kept out of the stdlib until we've come up with a convention. >> 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. > > You mean docstring-based? Sorry, yes. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
