[Python-ideas] PEP 526: why ClassVar instead of ClassAttr?

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 18 May 2017 at 17:25, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 17, 2017, 09:33 Ivan Levkivskyi, <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17 May 2017 at 11:03, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>> > There was another reason too. Many things are "class attributes" e.g.
>>> > methods, descriptors. But only specific things are class *variables*.
>>>
>>> Ah, that's a good reason. I can live with that.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the explanation.
>>>
>>>
>> This was discussed during development of PEP 526:
>> https://github.com/python/typing/issues/258#issuecomment-242263868
>> Maybe we should add a corresponding subsection to "Rejected ideas"?
>>
>
> If it isn't too much trouble to write them I say it's a reasonable idea.
>

Here is a small proposed PR https://github.com/python/peps/pull/261

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Ivan
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