type hinting backward compatibility with python 3.0 to 3.4
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun May 21 18:46:46 EDT 2017
bartc wrote:
> In fact the declaration of A might be in a different module from its use
> in a type hint, which means that, in the CPython byte-code compiler
> anyway, it is not visible at compile-time, when type hints could best be
> put to good effect.
The static type checker would have to understand enough about
imports to deal with that.
> Furthermore, both A, and the type-hinting code, might be conditional. So
> that on Tuesdays, A is a class, the rest of the week it's the name of a
> module.
But that situation is hardly *static*, so you can't blame a
static type checker for not coping with it.
--
Greg
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