On 18 May 2017 at 17:25, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2017, 09:33 Ivan Levkivskyi, <levkivskyi@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 May 2017 at 11:03, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
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"?
If it isn't too much trouble to write them I say it's a reasonable idea.
Here is a small proposed PR https://github.com/python/peps/pull/261 -- Ivan