syntax difference

[Rick Johnson]

On Monday, June 18, 2018 at 1:02:18 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
[...]
> When PEP 3107 was written, it was anticipated that
> annotations would find more uses than just type hinting.
> Some of those proposed ideas (e.g. database query mapping)
> depend on the annotation being readable at run-time, for
> which a comment would be wholly inadequate.

That's a BS excuse! Any tool can pre-process a python script
simply by reading the source from disc before passing it
off to the Python interpreter. It's a simple matter of
_delegation_.