On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:51 PM Eric V. Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote:
> > >> 3. Annotations. They are used mainly by third party tools that > >> statically analyze sources. They are rarely used at runtime. > > > > Even less used than docstrings probably. > > typing.NamedTuple and dataclasses use annotations at runtime. > > Eric > Yep. Everything accessible in any way at runtime is used by something at runtime. It's a public API, we can't just get rid of it. Several libraries rely on docstrings being available (additional case in point beyond the already linked to cli tool: ply <http://www.dabeaz.com/ply/ply.html>) Most of the world never appears to use -O and -OO. If they do, they don't use these libraries or jump through special hoops to prevent pyo compliation of any sources that need them. (unlikely) -gps
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