Heh. I could add an example with a long list of parameters with long names, but apart from showing by example what the motivation is it wouldn't really add anything, and it's more to type. :-)
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2016, at 18:18, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> Second, https://github.com/python/typing/issues/186. This builds on >> the previous syntax but deals with the other annoyance of long >> argument lists, this time in case you *do* care about the types. The >> proposal is to allow writing the arguments one per line with a type >> comment on each line. This has been implemented in PyCharm but not yet >> in mypy. Example: >> >> def gcd( >> a, # type: int >> b, # type: int >> ): >> # type: (...) -> int >> <code here> > > This is a lot nicer than what you were originally discussing (at #1101? I > forget...). Even more so given how trivial it will be to mechanically convert > these to annotations if/when you switch an app to pure Python 3. > > But one thing: in the PEP and the docs, I think it would be better to pick an > example with longer parameter names. This example shows that even in the > worst case it isn't that bad, but a better example would show that in the > typical case it's actually pretty nice. (Also, I don't see why you wouldn't > just use the "old" comment form for this example, since it all fits on one > line and isn't at all confusing.) > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
