Here's one more thing we'd like to add to PEP 484. The description is
best gleaned from the issue, in particular
https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1284#issuecomment-199021176 and
following (we're going with option (A)).
Really brief example:
from typing import NewType
UserId = NewType('UserId', int)
Now to the type checker UserId is a new type that's compatible with
int, but converting an int to a UserId requires a special cast form,
UserId(x). At runtime UserId instances are just ints (not a subclass!)
and UserId() is a dummy function that just returns its argument.
For use cases see the issue. Also send feedback there please.
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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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