syntax difference

[Jim Lee]

On 06/18/2018 11:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> What, fundamentally, is the difference between type hints and 
> assertions, such that - in
> your view - one gets syntax and the other is just comments?
Type hints are just that - hints.  They have no syntactic meaning to the 
parser, and do not affect the execution path in any way. Therefore, they 
are effectively and actually comments.  The way they have been 
implemented, though, causes noise to be interspersed with live code and, 
as others have said, are difficult to remove or ignore.

-Jim