On 17 May 2017 at 19:03, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> There was another reason too. Many things are "class attributes" e.g. >> methods, descriptors. But only specific things are class *variables*. > > Ah, that's a good reason. I can live with that.
In the specific context of type hints, there is also https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.TypeVar, which is used to indicate that particular variable name refers to a type variable for generics, rather than a normal runtime value. So a "type variable" and a "type attribute" are also very different things (assuming that the latter is being used as an equivalent to "class attribute"). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
