On 31 August 2016 at 13:09, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess as long as they're included somewhere in the AST for the > function body, I don't mind if the translation to bytecode throws them > away - that's essentially saying that a function level type annotation > is effectively interpreted as if it was: > > if False: > __annotations__[<varname>] = <annotation> > > So the code generator will pick up syntax errors during normal > execution, but not runtime errors (since the expression never actually > gets evaluated). >
Nick, you are right, in current implementation they are included in AST in exactly the same way as in classes and modules, but compiler throws them away. -- Ivan
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