Kiuhnm wrote: > I must say that the lack of static types in Python is a pain in the neck > especially when I'm exploring new libraries. Recently, I learned a new > language called Dart which have optional typing and I had a lot of fun > with it. Basically, you use type annotations as documentation and to give > useful information to the IDE or editor. That makes the IDE look *very* > smart! I'm using PyCharm and more often than not I want to see the list of > methods and attributes of an object, but the editor won't show them to me > because it doesn't know the dynamic type of the variable whose value was > just returned by a function. That's irritating! Am I the only one who'd > like to see optional types introduced in Python?
Personally I am skeptical, but there is an effort underway: http://www.mypy-lang.org/ https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-August/028742.html Nothing that your search engine of choice could not have found you... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
