[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can look at this, its API looks very well thought out to me: > http://oakwinter.com/code/typecheck/ > >> Now, on the other hand, if we were to introduce a purely optional >> type hint to the function prototype, such as follows: >> def multiplyByTwo(value:int): return value * 2 > > I don't think Python will have something like this...
It's actually something that has been being considered for Python 3.0 for a long time. Search for `python optional static typing` for discussions - the first two links from Google are blog entries by Guido from a year ago (there's also a third one linked from PEP 3000). Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list