[Python-Dev] PEP 526 ready for review: Syntax for Variable and Attribute Annotations

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Aug 31 07:34:37 EDT 2016


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:15:55PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:20:26PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >> I'm happy to present PEP 526 for your collective review:
> >
> > Are you hoping to get this in before 3.6 beta? Because I'm not sure I
> > can give this much attention before then, but I really want to.
> 
> Yes I am hoping for that. Unlike PEP 484, this PEP is forward-looking
> (more like PEP 492, async/await), and the sooner we can get it in the
> sooner people who want to use it won't have to worry about supporting
> older Python versions. (And am I ever looking forward to the day when
> Python 3.5 counts as "older". :-)

Indeed :-)

Okay, I'll bump it up my list of priorities. (Sleep? Who needs that? :-) 


-- 
Steve


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