Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> >> So if Python 3.7 is acceptable as a minimum version (it seems available
> >> in the distro releases you mention), you would be able to start using
> >> this union syntax.
> >
> > I remember having to use the __future__ import. I guess I no longer
> > have to now that De
Collin Funk writes:
>> 'from __future__ import annotations', available since Python 3.7 [1],
>> allows older Pythons to ignore type-hint syntax sophistications brought
>> by newer Pythons.
>>
>> So if Python 3.7 is acceptable as a minimum version (it seems available
>> in the distro releases you
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 05:16:29PM +0100, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> (Hi! Apologies for the drive-by comments, hopefully they won't be
> complete noise. Butting in hoping to clarify things at best, stand
> corrected at worst)
>
> Bruno Haible writes:
>
> >> Python has added a lot of interesting
On 2/29/24 8:16 AM, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> * the former provide some runtime sanity-checking,
> * the latter are ineffective at runtime, and exist mainly for the
> programmer's benefit (IDE hints for completion, documentation,
> linting, etc).
>
> (Though linters like mypy do _also_ pick up
On 2/29/24 7:10 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Argument tests like we have them:
>
>if type(actioncmd) is not str:
>
> are perfectly OK to use. Simple and straightforward.
>
> is_iterable feels a bit like fashion: You can use them if you want to be
> fashonable and have extra money to spend :
(Hi! Apologies for the drive-by comments, hopefully they won't be
complete noise. Butting in hoping to clarify things at best, stand
corrected at worst)
Bruno Haible writes:
>> Python has added a lot of interesting type hinting stuff over the past
>> few years [3].
>
> Interesting. Feel free t
Hi Collin,
> Was gnulib-tool.py originally written in Python 2?
Yes, it was written in Python 2, with the knowledge that Python 3 was
already nearby around the corner.
> I don't feel like I
> don't see 'type(var) == list' anymore (in the very little Python code
> I read). Usually I feel like you
