Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > On the other hand, having this precedent might give passers-by and > perhaps future stdlib developers the idea that a convention has been > adopted by the stdlib
Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose they see fit? > FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would > adopt a *comment-based* convention for indicating the types of arguments. You mean docstring-based? ---------- assignee: rhettinger -> components: +IO, Library (Lib) nosy: +pitrou versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10899> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
