[Python-ideas] PEP 484 (Type Hints) -- first draft round

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Dennis Brakhane <brakhane at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> The PEP does not mention MyPy style casts. Is this intentional?
>

No, we ran out of time for the first draft (and Łukasz needed some pushing
to like them :-). The conclusion in
https://github.com/ambv/typehinting/issues/15 is that we will add it.


> If yes, are casts not supported at all, or is there just no cast in typing
> and people should use type: comments instead?
>
> x = [1,2,3]  # type: Iterable[int]
> y = x # type: Sequence[int]
>
>
The issue I linked to also explains the difference (it's subtle!).

If someone wants to give describing cast() in the PEP a shot, send a PR!

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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