Well, with that, I am hereby accepting PEP 561. Ethan has done a tremendous job writing this PEP and implementing it, and I am sure that package and stub authors will be very glad to hear that there are now officially supported ways other than typeshed to distribute type annotations.
Congrats Ethan! --Guido On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:15 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > OK, last call! I'll accept the current draft tomorrow unless someone > pushes back. > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:37 AM Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 23 June 2018 at 01:16, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> > That sounds like you're supporting PEP 561 as is, right? >> >> Aye, I'm personally fine with it - we do need to do something about >> automatically reserving the derived names on PyPI, but I don't think >> that's a blocker for the initial PEP acceptance (instead, it will go >> the other way: PEP acceptance will drive Warehouse getting updated to >> handle the convention already being adopted by the client tools). >> >> > Excuse my >> > ignorance, but where are API testing stub interfaces described or used? >> >> They're not - it's just the context for Donald referring to "stubs" as >> being a general technical term with other meanings beyond the "type >> hinting stub file" one. >> >> As such, there's three parts to explaining why we're not worried about >> the terminology clash: >> >> - Ethan searched for projects called "*-stubs" or "*_stubs" and didn't >> find any, so the practical impact of any terminology clash will be low >> - there isn't an established need to automatically find testing stub >> libraries based on an existing project name the way there is for type >> hints >> - even if such a need did arise in the future, the "py.typed" marker >> file and the different file extension for stub files within a package >> still gives us an enormous amount of design flexibility >> >> Cheers, >> Nick. >> >> -- >> Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >> > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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