type hinting backward compatibility with python 3.0 to 3.4

Steve D'Aprano steve+python at pearwood.info
Sat May 20 13:06:46 EDT 2017


On Sun, 21 May 2017 12:14 am, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> You mean treat them as syntactically comments?
>> 
>> def function(arg:I can put ***ANYTHING*** I like here!!!):
> 
> They could be parsed as expressions and stored as an AST.
> That would allow introspection, and you could evaluate them
> if you wanted


Ooh, that's a nice idea!




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