Static typing

[Terry Reedy]

"Michael Muller" <mmuller at enduden.spam.filter.com> wrote in message
news:LvdUa.905$DU.696 at fe12.atl2.webusenet.com...
> Is there currently any plan to introduce static typing in any future
> version of Python?  (I'm not entirely sure that "static typing" is
the right
> term: what I'm talking about is the declaration of types for
variables,
> parameters and function return values).
>
> I know there was a "types SIG" which introduced several proposals,
but it
> expired quite a while ago, and I was wondering whether whether some
> consensus has been reached on the subject or if it has just been
shelved
> indefinitely.

AFAIK, There is no consensus and no concrete plans for Python itself.
However, there are various third party efforts.  Pyrex is, in part,
Python + type declarations for C compilation.  Weave implicitly types
vars as ints or floats. Psyco make declaration unnecessary.

Terry J. Reedy