+1 from me. Looking for a better way to enable this from the command line.
Our alternative would be to maintain a local patch, since this definitely
helps us.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:04 AM Raymond Hettinger <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> -0 At first blush, this seems reasonable. Like removing docstrings, it
> would make the bytecode more compact.  That said, annotations can be used
> for more things than typing (they predate typing and could be used for
> anything). It's unclear whether stripping them might break published
> modules that rely on the annotations being present.
>
> Leaving this feature request open so that it can gather more comments from
> the other devs.
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