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Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	collinwinter, gvanrossum, pitrou, rhettinger
Date	2011-01-12.22:52:11
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > 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? No, that is less strong than what I said. I agree with Raymond that they should be kept out of the stdlib until we've come up with a convention. >> 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? Sorry, yes.

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> 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?

No, that is less strong than what I said. I agree with Raymond that
they should be kept out of the stdlib until we've come up with a
convention.

>> 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?

Sorry, yes.

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