[Python-ideas] Proposal: Use mypy syntax for function annotations

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:29:48PM +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:
>
> > 1) I'm not keen with the naming of mypy's typing classes. The visual
> > distinction between e.g. dict() and Dict() is too small and IMHO
> > confusing for newcomers. […]
>
> Would it be possible, and desirable, to modify the built-in types so
> that we could re-use them in the type annotations?

That would address my concern. With that change, when the programmer who
reads the code encounters mention of a type, it means precisely the same
type object as it appears to be and not some special beast.

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