On 10/29/2014 10:18 AM, Kiuhnm wrote:
On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:57:13 PM UTC+1, Peter Otten wrote:
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...
In fact, I did find it, but that didn't stop me from asking :)
You can find something similar for almost any dynamic language out there.
If it isn't an official feature of the language, it's useless, IMHO.
It seems that PyCharm supports some kind of type annotations:
http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/webhelp/using-docstrings-to-specify-types.html
Unfortunately, again, if almost no one uses them, they're not very useful.
Even if it becomes official, which seems likely, it will still be optional -- hence, only useful if folks actually use
it. ;)
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