Type hinting of Python is just a toy ?

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:20 AM Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Pep484 is too complex. Typle should not a seperate type, in fact it should be just a class. Like this in other programming language
> > Python: Tuple(id: int, name: string, age: int)
> > Other: class someClass {
> >         public int id;
> >         public string name;
> >         public int age;
> > }
>
> In other words, you want typing to be as restrictive as it is in C++
> or Java. How would you define the type "JSON-encodable"? You can
> encode a string, an integer, a float, an array of JSON-encodable
> objects, and a mapping from strings to JSON-encodable objects. Can you
> represent that as a class?

I'm not sure the OP is saying that at all. It kind of sounds like he
thinks that tuples are Python's version of classes, which is pretty
hilarious.