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.