Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 484: updates to Python 2.7 signature syntax

2016-03-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
This seemed pretty uncontroversial -- I've updated the PEP (including a long(ish) example :-). On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Heh. I could add an example with a long list of parameters with long > names, but apart from showing by example what the motivation is it > wou

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 484: updates to Python 2.7 signature syntax

2016-03-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
Heh. I could add an example with a long list of parameters with long names, but apart from showing by example what the motivation is it wouldn't really add anything, and it's more to type. :-) On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Andrew Barnert wrote: > On Mar 19, 2016, at 18:18, Guido van Rossum wr

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 484: updates to Python 2.7 signature syntax

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Barnert via Python-Dev
On Mar 19, 2016, at 18:18, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Second, https://github.com/python/typing/issues/186. This builds on > the previous syntax but deals with the other annoyance of long > argument lists, this time in case you *do* care about the types. The > proposal is to allow writing the arg