[Python-Dev] Re: Let's Fix Class Annotations -- And Maybe Annotations Generally

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:00 PM Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:

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- It turns a None annotation into type(None). Which means now you can't tell the difference between "None" and "type(None)".

Huh, I wasn't aware of that.

This has tripped up many people. Maybe we should just bite the bullet and change this? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...>