[Python-ideas] Proposal to extend PEP 484 (gradual typing) to support Python 2.7

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:22:55PM -0800, Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas wrote:

> in a few months we're going to see 
> Dropbox and Google and everyone else demanding a way to use type 
> hinting without wasting memory on annotations are runtime in 3.x.

I would be happy to see a runtime switch similar to -O that drops 
annotations in 3.x, similar to how -OO drops docstrings.



-- 
Steve