Hi Barry,

Absolutely fantastic - thank you for letting us know! As Guido says,
there's one final thing that we thought would be easy to resolve but has
actually turned out to be a little tricky. Happy to proceed as you think is
best here.

Matthew

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 22:33, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> That's fantastic news!
>
> Somewhat embarrassingly, on typing-sig we're still discussing one or two
> final tweaks. In particular, the PEP as accepted forbids a certain
> construct (passing a tuple of indefinite length to a function using `*args:
> *Ts`) that after all we may actually want to allow. This would affect
> static type checkers only, there's no change in the grammar or runtime
> associated with lifting this restriction. See
> https://github.com/python/peps/pull/2125
>
> I presume the SC is okay with that?
>
> --Guido
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 2:15 PM Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Mark, Matthew, Pradeep, Vincent, and Guido,
>>
>> The Python Steering Council discussed the latest version of PEP 646
>> (Variadic Generics) at our last meeting, and have unanimously decided to
>> accept the PEP.  Congratulations!
>>
>> We want to specifically mention that we appreciate the way you called out
>> the Python grammar changes required by the typing features you proposed.
>> As we’ve said before, the Steering Council strongly believes that the
>> typing language and the “general” Python programming language should remain
>> aligned, so the implications of syntax change proposed in the PEP for
>> typing needed to be addressed for non-typed Python as well.  The PEP
>> explains this change well, and does a good job of justifying the semantics
>> and usefulness of the change for non-type related purposes.
>>
>> Please feel free to change the PEP status to Accepted, and to merge your
>> changes to Python 3.11 at your convenience.
>>
>> With our appreciation,
>> -Barry (on behalf of the Python Steering Council)
>>
>>
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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