[issue10899] No function type annotations in the standard library

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> On the other hand, having this precedent might give passers-by and 
> perhaps future stdlib developers the idea that a convention has been 
> adopted by the stdlib

Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose they see fit?

> FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would 
> adopt a *comment-based* convention for indicating the types of arguments.

You mean docstring-based?

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assignee: rhettinger -> 
components: +IO, Library (Lib)
nosy: +pitrou
versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.1

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