Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> added the comment: I actually intended to say that annotations continue to be usable for non-typing purposes (beyond ClassVar/InitVar). It may be deprecated but the usage still exists. This is a glossary, not a manifesto. I'm fine with adding that the main use of annotations is for type hints of course. And I was mostly reacting to the fact that the text that was just committed seemed to imply that 'annotation' refers to something stored at runtime in __annotations__ while 'type hint' was a syntactic form (and this is borne out by the omission of *local* type hints from the section on annotations). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32769> _______________________________________