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Author	pitrou
Recipients	collinwinter, gvanrossum, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2011-01-12.22:49:45
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Message-id	<1294872592.62.0.253466227156.issue10899@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> On the other hand, having this precedent might give passers-by and > perhaps future stdlib developers the idea that a convention has been > adopted by the stdlib Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose they see fit? > FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would > adopt a comment-based convention for indicating the types of arguments. You mean docstring-based?

> On the other hand, having this precedent might give passers-by and 
> perhaps future stdlib developers the idea that a convention has been 
> adopted by the stdlib

Could we simply state in PEP 8 that annotations have no official meaning and that anyone (including stdlib developers) can use it for whatever purpose they see fit?

> FWIW, I've long wished that the stdlib (and perhaps even PEP 8) would 
> adopt a *comment-based* convention for indicating the types of arguments.

You mean docstring-based?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-12 22:49:52	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gvanrossum, collinwinter, rhettinger
2011-01-12 22:49:52	pitrou	set	messageid: <1294872592.62.0.253466227156.issue10899@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2011-01-12 22:49:45	pitrou	create