[Python-ideas] Contracts in python -- a report & next steps

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 6:41 PM Marko Ristin-Kaufmann
<marko.ristin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Next Steps?
> I personally doubt that we are enough people to form a party to push for a change in the language. A standardized library seems to me like a realizable compromise given the state of the discussion on this mail list.
>
> Before we organize a collective to write a proposal to standardize the library, I would suggest that a couple of other interested teams adopt icontract, apply it to their code bases and report their experiences on this mail list. I hope that 2-3 reports would be insightful enough to either convince other people that contracts in python are worth standardizing (and highlight missing features yet to be implemented) or provide solid material to discard the endeavor at the current moment.
>

For the sake of those of us who REALLY don't feel like diving back
into the extensive threads on this subject, can you please summarize
the benefits of having this in the stdlib rather than as a third-party
library?

Also - have you benchmarked the performance cost of adding contracts?
Particularly: if you're planning to contractify the stdlib, what is
the impact on startup performance?

ChrisA