Re: [Python-Dev] inconsistency in annotated assigned targets

Thank you for the clarification! I should have looked through the PEPs first. On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > PEP 526 has this in the "Rejected/Postponed Proposals" section: > > - **Allow annotations in** ``with`` **and** ``for`` **statement:** >

Re: [Python-Dev] inconsistency in annotated assigned targets

PEP 526 has this in the "Rejected/Postponed Proposals" section: - **Allow annotations in** ``with`` **and** ``for`` **statement:** This was rejected because in ``for`` it would make it hard to spot the actual iterable, and in ``with`` it would confuse the CPython's LL(1) parser. On Thu, Jan

Re: [Python-Dev] inconsistency in annotated assigned targets

2018-01-25 15:00 GMT-08:00 Joe Jevnik via Python-Dev : > Currently there are many ways to introduce variables in Python; however, > only a few allow annotations. I was working on a toy language and chose to > base my syntax on Python's when I noticed that I could not

[Python-Dev] inconsistency in annotated assigned targets

Currently there are many ways to introduce variables in Python; however, only a few allow annotations. I was working on a toy language and chose to base my syntax on Python's when I noticed that I could not annotate a loop iteration variable. For example: for x: int in range(5): ... This led