<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 May 2017 at 17:25, Brett Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 17, 2017, 09:33 Ivan Levkivskyi, <<a href="mailto:levkivskyi@gmail.com" target="_blank">levkivskyi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On 17 May 2017 at 11:03, Steven D'Aprano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@pearwood.info" target="_blank">steve@pearwood.info</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-m_4522332477488724824m_2666043305086288633gmail-">On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br>
> There was another reason too. Many things are "class attributes" e.g.<br>
> methods, descriptors. But only specific things are class *variables*.<br>
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</span>Ah, that's a good reason. I can live with that.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the explanation.<br>
<div class="gmail-m_4522332477488724824m_2666043305086288633gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_4522332477488724824m_2666043305086288633gmail-h5"><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">This was discussed during development of PEP 526: <a href="https://github.com/python/typing/issues/258#issuecomment-242263868" target="_blank">https://github.com/python/<wbr>typing/issues/258#<wbr>issuecomment-242263868</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Maybe we should add a corresponding subsection to "Rejected ideas"?<br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div></span><div>If it isn't too much trouble to write them I say it's a reasonable idea.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is a small proposed PR <a href="https://github.com/python/peps/pull/261">https://github.com/python/peps/pull/261</a><br><br>--<br></div><div>Ivan<br><br><br> </div></div></div></div>