17 May
2017
17 May
'17
12:32 p.m.
On 17 May 2017 at 11:03, Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
There was another reason too. Many things are "class attributes" e.g. methods, descriptors. But only specific things are class *variables*.
Ah, that's a good reason. I can live with that.
Thanks for the explanation.
This was discussed during development of PEP 526: https://github.com/python/typing/issues/258#issuecomment-242263868 Maybe we should add a corresponding subsection to "Rejected ideas"? -- Ivan