On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I believe I heard that the PEP 484 type checker is to go into CPython 3.5. >> >> Since type annotations have been there since 3.0, is it at all likely >> that CPython versions < 3.5 will also be supported by this checker? > > All that's going into 3.5 is the typing.py module, which will also be > distributed on PyPI. The actual type checking is being left to > third-party tools like MyPy (which was the basis for the typing.py > module). > > I'm not sure if there is any plan to ever include an actual type > checker with the base Python distribution.
And MyPy is quite capable of probing code that belongs on older interpreters than 3.5 (obviously, since it already exists); it even has some measure of support for probing Py2 code, although you do need to have a Python 3.2+ to actually run MyPy on. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
