On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:28:45 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 20:43:38 -0400 > > "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > > +1 to this from me too. I'm afraid that means I'm -1 on the PEP. > > > > > > I didn't write this in my earlier email because I wasn't sure about it, > > > but my gut reaction after reading Harry's email was "if type annotations > > > are used in the stdlib, I'll probably stop contributing". That doesn't > > > mean that's *true*, but that's the first time I've ever had that > > > thought, so it is probably worth sharing. > > > > I think it would be nice to know what the PEP means for daily stdlib > > development. If patches have to carry typing information each time they > > add/enhance an API that's an addition burden. If typing is done > > separately by interested people then it sounds like it wouldn't have > > much of an impact on everyone else's workflow. > > > > This point will be moot until new code appears in the stdlib whose author > likes type hints. As I said, we won't be converting existing code to add > type hints (I'm actively against that for the stdlib, for reasons I've > explained already).
I was thinking of potential stub files. Or are you also putting a ban on those for existing stdlib code? Sorry if that has already been answered... Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
