On Monday, June 18, 2018 at 1:02:18 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: [...] > When PEP 3107 was written, it was anticipated that > annotations would find more uses than just type hinting. > Some of those proposed ideas (e.g. database query mapping) > depend on the annotation being readable at run-time, for > which a comment would be wholly inadequate.
That's a BS excuse! Any tool can pre-process a python script simply by reading the source from disc before passing it off to the Python interpreter. It's a simple matter of _delegation_. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list