[Python-Dev] Please reject or postpone PEP 526

Mark Shannon mark at hotpy.org
Mon Sep 5 10:19:46 EDT 2016



On 04/09/16 21:16, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Everybody please stop panicking. PEP 526 does not make a stand on the
> behavior of type checkers (other than deferring to PEP 484). If you
> want to start a discussion about constraining type checkers please do
> it over at python-ideas. There is no rush as type checkers are not
> affected by the feature freeze.
>

Indeed, we shouldn't panic. We should take our time, review this 
carefully and make sure that the version of typehints that lands in 3.7 
is one that we most of us are happy with and all of us can at least 
tolerate.

Cheers,
Mark.


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