[Python-ideas] PEP 484 (Type Hints) -- first draft round

[Greg Ewing]

On 01/22/2015 01:50 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I've seen plenty of code that takes instances a certain class
> as argument and calls methods of that type but never constructs a new instance
> nor does any of the other things for which you need the class name,

If the only thing the name is needed for is static checking,
I don't see what's so bad about not finding out until you
actually run the static check. Adding those imports earlier
doesn't make the code work any better or show up any more
runtime bugs.

-- 
Greg