[Python-Dev] PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations

[Lukasz Langa]

See my response to Mark's e-mail. I agree that special-casing outermost strings is not generic enough of a solution and will be removing this special handling from the PEP and the implementation.

- Ł

> On Nov 19, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org <mailto:brett at python.org>> wrote:
> ​[..]​
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017, 10:22 Koos Zevenhoven, <k7hoven at gmail.com <mailto:k7hoven at gmail.com>> wrote:​​
> 
> There's two thing I don't understand here:
> 
> * What does it mean to preserve the string verbatim? No matter how I read it, I can't tell if it's with quotes or without.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing some context.
> 
> I believe the string passes through unchanged (i.e. no quotes). Think of the PEP as simply turning all non-string annotations into string ones.
> 
> 
> ​Ok, maybe that was just wishful thinking on my part ;-).
> 
> More info in the other threads, for example:
> 
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150642.html <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150642.html>
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150637.html <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-November/150637.html>
> 
> -- Koos
> 
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