[Python-Dev] PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017, 10:22 Koos Zevenhoven, <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>>
>> There's two thing I don't understand here:
>>
>> * What does it mean to preserve the string verbatim? No matter how I read
>> it, I can't tell if it's with quotes or without.
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing some context.
>>
>
> I believe the string passes through unchanged (i.e. no quotes). Think of
> the PEP as simply turning all non-string annotations into string ones.
>
>
​Ok, maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part ;-).

More info in the other threads, for example:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150642.html
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150637.html

-- Koos


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