Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm looking at developing a somewhat complex system, and I think some > static typing will help me keep limit my confusion. I.e.: > > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=87182 > > Does anyone know if/when that feature may become part of Python? > > Thanks very much, > Christian
It was discussed recently at the Python 3000 mailing list and it seems that the goals are not very ambitious but this was already clear from Guidos Artima blog post you cited. So it may happen that type annotation syntax in function signatures will be introduced in Py3K but the semantics is reduced to a "protocol" i.e. Python will still be untyped in a strict sense ( or dynamically type checked to put it more positive ). An proposed alternative for type annotation syntax and runtime type-checks that comes up from time to time is using decorators for this job. Here is a recipe that might be usefull in your project right now: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/426123 Regards, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
