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Author gvanrossum
Recipients docs@python, gvanrossum, phr, rhettinger, veky
Date 2019-10-01.17:55:24
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I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 23:42 Vedran Čačić <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> Vedran Čačić <vedgar@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> > Many docs are ... vague about types.
>
> ... and I consider that a feature. At least if you do that, make an
> explicit decision not to introduce TypeErrors for "disagreeing with the
> documented signature".
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> For example, I'd be ok with sum being documented as taking an iterable of
> numbers and returning a number, but it would be a catastrophe if as a
> consequence of that, sum of a list of lists would stop working.
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