[Python-Dev] Is static typing still optional?

[Eric V. Smith]

On 12/10/2017 4:29 PM, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:
> On 10 December 2017 at 22:24, Raymond Hettinger 
> <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com <mailto:raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Without typing (only the first currently works):
> 
>          Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y', 'z'])          #
>     underlying store is a tuple
>          Point = make_dataclass('Point', ['x', 'y', 'z'])      #
>     underlying store is an instance dict
> 
> 
> Hm, I think this is a bug in implementation. The second form should also 
> work.

Agreed.

I have a bunch of pending changes for dataclasses. I'll add this.

Eric.